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Tuvalu is made up of 9 islands that stretch throughout about 360 miles (580 kilometers). These islands are Nanumea, Niutao, Nanumanga, Nui, Vaitupu, Nukufetau, Funafuti, Nukulaelae, and Niulakita. Nobody lives on Niulakita. The capital of Tuvalu is the small island of Funafuti.
Coconut palm timber cowl a lot of the nation. The islanders use the coconuts to make copra, which is dried coconut meat. They promote the copra to different nations.
Most of Tuvalu’s individuals are a Pacific Island individuals referred to as Polynesians. They stay in villages constructed round a church and a gathering home. The individuals often put on mild, vibrant-coloured cotton clothes. Their primary meals are bananas, coconuts, fish, and a plant referred to as taro, which has underground stems which are good to eat.
Tuvalu has poor soil for farming, and the nation has virtually no business or mining. Many younger individuals from Tuvalu work on ocean ships as a result of there are so few jobs on the islands.
Copra is the nation’s chief product. Tuvalu ladies additionally weave baskets, followers, and mats to promote to different nations. Some cash additionally comes from charges paid by ships from different nations that fish for tuna close to the islands.
The primary individuals of Tuvalu in all probability got here from the Samoa Islands a whole lot of years in the past. Within the 1500’s, Spanish explorers turned the primary Europeans to see the islands.Europeans referred to as the islands the Ellice Islands. Britain took management of the islands within the 1890’s. Tuvalu turned an unbiased nation in 1978.