2021 in Oceania

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List of events that happened during 2021 in Oceania .

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Sovereign states

Australia

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Christmas Island

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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  • Governor General: David Hurley (since 2019) [2]
  • Administrator: Natasha Griggs (since 2018) [2]

Norfolk Island

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East Timor / Timor-Leste

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Fiji

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Kiribati

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Marshall Islands

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Micronesia

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Nauru

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Palau

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Papua New Guinea

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Realm of New Zealand

Flag of New Zealand.svg The Realm of New Zealand consists of the sovereign state of New Zealand, the associated states of the Cook Islands and Niue, and the dependent territory of Tokelau. It also includes the Antarctica territorial claim of the Ross Dependency.


New Zealand

Cook Islands

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Niue

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Tokelau

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Samoa

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Solomon Islands

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Tonga

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Tuvalu

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Vanuatu

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Dependencies

British Overseas Territories

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Pitcairn Islands

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Chile

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Insular Chile

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France

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French Polynesia

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New Caledonia

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Wallis and Futuna

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United States

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American Samoa

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Guam

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Hawaii

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Northern Mariana Islands

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Events

January and February

March and April

Scheduled

Elections

Major national and territorial holidays

Culture

Sports

Deaths

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiji</span> Country in Melanesia, Oceania

Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population of 924,610 live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in the capital city of Suva, or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi or Lautoka. The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oceania</span> Geographical region in the Pacific Ocean

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Outside of the English-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered a continent, while Mainland Australia is regarded as its continental landmass. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, at the centre of the water hemisphere, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi) and a population of around 44.4 million as of 2022. Oceania is the smallest continent in land area and the second-least populated after Antarctica.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geography of Vanuatu</span>

Vanuatu is a nation and group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It is composed of over 80 islands with 2,528 kilometres (1,571 mi) of coastline and a total surface area of 12,189 square kilometres (4,706 sq mi). It's a small country with a total size of 12,189 km2 (4,706 sq mi). Due to the spread out islands it has the 39th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 663,251 km2 (256,083 sq mi).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solomon Islands</span> Country in the southwestern Pacific

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres, and a population of 734,887 according to the official estimates for mid 2023. Its capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pacific Islands Forum</span> Intergovernmental organisation of island nations in the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is an inter-governmental organisation that aims to enhance cooperation among countries and territories of Oceania, including formation of a trade bloc and regional peacekeeping operations. It was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum (SPF), and changed its name in 1999 to "Pacific Islands Forum", so as to be more inclusive of the Forum's Oceania-spanning membership of both north and south Pacific island countries, including Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fijians</span> Ethnic group native to Fiji

Fijians are a nation and ethnic group native to Fiji, who speak Fijian and English and share a common history and culture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of the South Pacific</span> Oceanian university headquartered in Suva, Fiji

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiji national football team</span> Mens association football team representing Fiji

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Australian rules football in Oceania</span>

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Cuban-Pacific relations are diplomatic, economic, cultural, and other relations between the Cuba and countries situated in Oceania. In the 2000s, Cuba has been strengthening its relations with Pacific nations, which have, for the most part, responded favorably to Cuban medical aid in particular. The first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting was held in September 2008 in Havana, with government members from ten Pacific countries—Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea—attending. The meeting was a consolidation rather than a starting point of Cuban-Pacific relations.

The decolonisation of Oceania occurred after World War II when nations in Oceania achieved independence by transitioning from European colonial rule to full independence.

Events in Oceania, during 2019.

The following lists events that happened during 2020 in Oceania.

This is a list of events in 2021 in West Africa.

The following lists events that happened during 2021 in the Caribbean.

The following lists events that happened during 2021 in East Africa. The countries listed are those described in the United Nations geoscheme for East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The following lists events that happened during 2021 in Southern Africa. The countries are those described in the United Nations geoscheme for Southern Africa.

The following lists events that happened during 2022 in East Africa. The countries listed are those described in the United Nations geoscheme for East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The following lists events that happened during 2022 in the Caribbean.

The following lists events that happened during 2023 in the Caribbean.

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  4. 1 2 New president for Marshall Islands RNZ, 6 Jan 2020
  5. 1 2 Panuelo sworn in as new FSM president The Guam Daily Post, 30 July 2019
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  13. 1 2 CIA Factbook: France retrieved 25 Feb 2020
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