Tuvalu

Tuvalu is located in the South Pacific and is a group of islands that form the fourth smallest county in the world. In 1974, ethnic differences within the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands caused the Polynesians of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation from the Micronesians of the Gilbert Islands. The following year, the Ellice Islands became the separate British colony of Tuvalu. Independence was granted in 1978. In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name ".tv" for $50 million in royalties over the next dozen years.

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The authors of this document are Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel, Evan Prodromou, Wikitravel user Dtobias, Yann Forget and the following WikiTravel users: CIAWorldFactbook2002, InterLangBot, Xltel. The original version of this article can be seen at http://wikitravel.org/en/Tuvalu.