American Samoa (U.S.)

Australia

Cook Is. (New Zealand)

Fiji

French Polynesia (France)

Guam (U.S.)

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Niue (New Zealand)

Northern Mariana Is. (U.S.)

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Is.

Tuvalu

Australia & Oceania

New Caledonia (France)

Tonga

Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna Is. (France)

None

Timor-Leste

Southeast Asia

A map highlights membership in the Pacific Islands Forum. Yellow indicates members, such as Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Orange indicates associate members, such as New Caledonia. Pink indicates forum observers, such as Timor-Leste.

Countries in Australia and Oceania that are member states of the Pacific Islands Forum, an organization founded in 1971 to enhance the economic and social well-being of the people of the South Pacific and foster cooperation among member governments

Countries

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)

Anguilla (U.K.)

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (Neth.)

Bahamas

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Andorra

Austria

Belarus

Europe

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Latin America

British Indian Ocean Territory (U.K.)

Curaçao (Neth.)

Faeroe Is. (Denmark)

Canada

Mexico

United States

North America

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Maldives

South Asia

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Algeria

Bahrain

Egypt

Iran

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries that joined the United Nations from 1945 to 1976 are shaded blue. U S A, U K, and China are shaded are marked for 1945. Countries like Japan and Germany are marked for the 1950s. Many African and Asian nations joined in the 1960s and 1970s.

Periods of time when countries became members of the United Nations. Use timeline controls at bottom of the map to display data by year.

World

United Nations States and Years of Admittance

South Korea

Macau S.A.R. (China)

North Korea

Taiwan

Distribution of language families: Indo-European in North and South America (blue), Niger-Congo in Sub-Saharan Africa (purple), Afro-Asiatic in North Africa and Middle East (black), Sino-Tibetan in China (brown), and Altaic in Central Asia (orange).

The predominant language families of East Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)	United Nations States and Years of Admittance	Language Families
Value	Value	Mongolian	Uigur and other Turkic languages	Tribal languages of eastern Taiwan	Japanese	Korean	Gan	Mandarin	Min (including Fujianese and Taiwanese)	Tibetan	Wu (including Shanghaiese)	Xiang	Yue (Cantonese)	Zhuang












		3.96%	1.10%	26.7%	60.3%	57.5%	1.53%	56.9%	72.3%	18.5%	1.52%	2.03%	3.31%	1.42%