Mar 3
Would you rather visit
Funafuti Airport Airstrip, Vaiaku, Tuvalu 🇹🇻
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Georgia 🇺🇸
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Would you rather visit
Funafuti Airport Airstrip, Vaiaku, Tuvalu 🇹🇻
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Georgia 🇺🇸
A dancer wearing a traditional tre titi tao wraparound skirt performs the fatele dance on Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu. The fatele evolved from the Samoan siva to replace the original Polynesian dances of the islanders banned by early missionaries.
Favorite country? What are three facts about favorite country?
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my favorite country is tuvalu!
fact 1: tuvalu, despite Valu meaning Four in Tuvaluan, is an island nation consisting of nine islands. Tuvalu is most likely the first nation to completely sink due to climate change, with the international community doing little to nothing. if you want to help, go to Tuvalu.tv, and the website will help you from there.
fact 2: there are ca. 13 000 people living in tuvalu, with ca. half of which living on the Funafuti atoll. most of them are English speakers, with tuvalu being a part of the former British colony of the ellice Islands (although that's kinda like calling the US the former 13 colonies), but the main language is Tuvaluan, also known as just Tuvalu.
fact 3: Tuvalu is the country with the least tourists in the world, based on 2021 data. this is likely due to how difficult it is to get there, with it being a country in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of New Zealand and Hawaii. The only planes that go to their singular airport (said airport doubles as a football field) come from Fiji, which is YET ANOTHER island nation!
Bonus fact, because i think this is the funniest shit ever. Basically, after colonization, Tuvalu was kind of low on money, but they still wanted to join the UN. but, with the rise of the internet happening at the time, every country was getting assigned a domain (.se for sweden, .fi for finland, etc). what did Tuvalu get? .tv. so, when different companies (e.g twitch) wanted .tv for their streaming services they have to pay Tuvalu. they used this money to get into the UN. it was honestly dumb luck that they got this domain, but im really happy they did.
edit: sorry, it consists of NINE islands! it's been fixed.
thank you so much for the ask! Tōfa!
Funafuti
This airport runway is also a public park
There’s a tiny airport that doubles as a playground.
Funafuti, Tuvalu (octobre 2007)
From A Visit to Tuvalu, Surrounded by the Rising Pacific, one of 24 photos. From the air, the Pacific Ocean (left) and Te Namo Lagoon (right) are separated by a thin strip of land—the atoll of Funafuti, Tuvalu, photographed on August 15, 2018. (Fiona Goodall / Getty for Lumix)
Funafuti
(Peter Stackpole. 1944)