Oceanian Countries

Oceania is the world's smallest continent by land area and by sovereign-state count — 14 UN member states spread across roughly a third of the Earth's surface, most of it ocean. The continent splits into four cultural regions: Australasia (Australia, New Zealand), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Nauru), and Polynesia (Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu). The two largest by population — Australia (~26 million) and Papua New Guinea (~10 million) — together hold over 90% of the continent's people, leaving the other twelve states ranging from New Zealand's 5 million down to Nauru's 12,000. The standard regional map renders 12 of the 14 sovereign states; Marshall Islands and Tuvalu are too small to surface as clickable features at the continent zoom level (this is a map-resolution limit, not a political one). Click-the-map and the map-anchored type-in mode cover those 12; multiple choice, tile select, and match cover all 14. Every mode counts toward your topic mastery. This is the smallest continent set in the catalog — useful as a fast confidence-builder before tackling Africa or Asia. The Pacific Island states are where most players slow down: keep an eye on the difference between Vanuatu and Solomon Islands (both Melanesian, both Y-shaped), the cluster of Micronesia / Palau / Marshall Islands in the northern Pacific, and Samoa vs Tonga vs Tuvalu in the central Polynesian triangle.