Countries in Australian Continent

COUNTRIES IN AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT

There are 14 countries in Oceania today, according to United Nations official statistics. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population totals.

Not included in this total count and listed separately are:

• The Cook Islands and Niue, both states in free association with New Zealand which are members of several UN specialized agencies and have been recognized "full treaty-making capacity", but are neither member states nor non-member observer states.
• Dependencies(or dependent territories, dependent areas) or Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)

Sno.	Country	Population (2020)	Subregion
1	Australia	25,499,884	Australia and New Zealand
2	Papua New Guinea	8,947,024	Melanesia
3	New Zealand	4,822,233	Australia and New Zealand
4	Fiji	896,445	Melanesia
5	Solomon Islands	686,884	Melanesia
6	Vanuatu	307,145	Melanesia
7	Samoa	198,414	Polynesia
8	Kiribati	119,449	Micronesia
9	Micronesia	115,023	Micronesia
10	Tonga	105,695	Polynesia
11	Marshall Islands	59,190	Micronesia
12	Palau	18,094	Micronesia
13	Tuvalu	11,792	Polynesia
14	Nauru	10,824	Micronesia

Dependencies or other territories

Sno.	Territory	Population (2020)	Dependency of
1	New Caledonia	285,498	France
2	French Polynesia	280,908	France
3	Guam	168,775	U.S.A.
4	Northern Mariana Islands	57,559	U.S.A.
5	American Samoa	55,191	U.S.A.
6	Cook Islands	17,564	(partly New Zealand)
7	Wallis & Futuna	11,239	France
8	Niue	1,626	(partly New Zealand)
9	Tokelau	1,357	New Zealand