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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 235
1 (2012)
Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 1
1,524 to 2,437 m 1 (2012) Roadways World Ranking: 221
Total 8 km
Paved 8 km (2002) Merchant marine World Ranking: 67
Total 58
By type Bulk carrier 4, cargo 24, chemical tanker 15, container 1, passenger 2, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 10, refrigerated cargo 1 Foreign-owned 33 (China 4, Indonesia 1, Maldives 1, Singapore 19, South Korea 1, Turkey 1, Vietnam 6) (2010) Ports and terminals
Funafuti
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Tuvalu (Funafuti):
 
GPS points from Tuvalu (Funafuti)
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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 a 12-year period.
