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Oceania Family Travel Guides

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Oceania with Kids

While some say that Australia is the name for the continent. Others name it Oceania. That’s what I call it, because this continent is more than Australia. How about a visit to New Zealand or one of the many small island countries like Fiji, Palau and Samoa

Pack your suitcase and visit one of the many tropical islands of this continent. Or rent a campervan and explore Australia or New Zealand. Your family will love it here!

Oceania Family Travel Guides

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Fun Facts about Oceania

Nauru is the smallest country of the continent
Australia is the largest country of the continent
Rugby is Oceania’s most popular sport
The Indigenous Australians have lived in Australia for over 80.000 years
Over 10.000 islands make up the continent of Oceania
The koala, platypus, kiwi, quokka and kangaroo can only be spotted in the wild in Oceania

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Background info about Oceania

Africa has a total of 54 countries, the most of any continent:

Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia

Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa

Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

The two biggest countries of Oceania are Australia and New Zealand. It’s the smallest continent on earth considering the landmass. Within the continent you can find more than 10.000 islands! In fact, all of the countries within this continent are islands, differing in size. Some barely inhabitable and other huge in size. A total of about 32 million people live on these islands.

Oceania can be divided into four parts: Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Each with their own culture.

With a population of just over 40 million people it is the 6th least populous continent in the world, behind Antarctica. The largest and most populous country in Oceania is Australia, and Sydney is the largest city on the continent.

Located in the central Pacific Ocean, Kiribati is a sovereign nation with a land area of just 310 square miles (800 km2). This country actually spans 1.3 million square miles (3.5 million km2). Its spread straddles both the equator and the 180th meridian, placing it in all four hemispheres.

Famed for its unique wildlife you can find animals here that you can’t find anywhere else in the world, like koala’s, kangaroos, quokka’s and wallabies.