Sovereign States
Further information: Sovereign stateA sovereign state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a population for whom it makes decisions in the national interest. According to the Montevideo convention, a state must have a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. The following states are all members of the United Nations. All are members of the Pacific Islands Forum, although Fiji is suspended.
| Flag | Map | English short and formal names |
Domestic short and formal names | Capital |
Population |
Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Commonwealth of Australia |
English: Australia — Commonwealth of Australia | Canberra English: Canberra |
22,015,576 | 7741220 !7,741,220 km2 (2,988,902 sq mi) | ||
| Fiji Republic of Fiji |
English: Fiji —Republic of Fiji Fijian: Viti — Matanitu ko Viti |
Suva English: Suva Fijian: Suva |
890,057 | 0018275 !18,274 km2 (7,056 sq mi) | ||
| Kiribati Republic of Kiribati |
English: Kiribati — Republic of Kiribati Gilbertese: Kiribati — Ribaberiki Kiribati |
Tarawa English: Tarawa Read more about this topic: List Of Sovereign States And Dependent Territories In Oceania Famous quotes containing the words sovereign and/or states:“The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.” “The traveler to the United States will do well ... to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.” |