Pacific Oceania

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Simplified version of the flag used to identify Pacific Oceania Pacific Oceania flag.png
Simplified version of the flag used to identify Pacific Oceania

Pacific Oceania [1] [2] (abbreviated to POC) is the name given to the group of small nations of the Southern, Southwestern, Central and Western Pacific Ocean that compete collectively as one country in both the Davis Cup (men) and Billie Jean King Cup (women) tennis tournaments. Pacific Oceania is governed by the Oceania Tennis Federation.

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As some Pacific Ocean countries and territories were too small or underdeveloped to have their own national teams, Pacific Oceania was established in the 1995, with both the men's and women's teams first participating in the 1995 editions of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, respectively.

Nations and territories represented

Map of countries represented in the Pacific Oceania teams. Former member (Guam) in orange. Map of Pacific Oceania member nations.svg
Map of countries represented in the Pacific Oceania teams. Former member (Guam) in orange.
  1. Flag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa
  2. Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands
  3. Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji (competed independently in the 1990s)
  4. Flag of Guam.svg  Guam (1995–2017 and compete independently since 2020 [3] )
  5. Flag of Kiribati.svg  Kiribati
  6. Flag of the Marshall Islands.svg  Marshall Islands
  7. Flag of the Federated States of Micronesia.svg  Federated States of Micronesia
  8. Flags of New Caledonia.svg New Caledonia
  9. Flag of Nauru.svg  Nauru
  10. Flag of Norfolk Island.svg  Norfolk Island
  11. Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands [4]
  12. Flag of Palau.svg  Palau
  13. Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea
  14. Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa
  15. Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg  Solomon Islands
  16. Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti
  17. Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga
  18. Flag of Tuvalu.svg  Tuvalu
  19. Flag of Vanuatu.svg  Vanuatu
Oceania Tennis Federation members never represented
  1. Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
  2. Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand

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