If you lived in Wallis and Futuna instead of Norfolk Island, you would:

Basic Needs

be 74.0% less likely to have internet access

In Norfolk Island, approximately 34.6% of the population has internet access as of 2016. In Wallis and Futuna, about 9.0% do as of 2019.

Geography

see 4.0 times more coastline

Norfolk Island has a total of 32 km of coastline. In Wallis and Futuna, that number is 129 km.


The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Wallis and Futuna: At a glance

Wallis and Futuna is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 142 sq km. The Futuna island group was discovered by the Dutch in 1616 and Wallis by the British in 1767, but it was the French who declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842, and took official control of them between 1886 and 1888. Notably, Wallis and Futuna was the only French colony to side with the Vichy regime during World War II, a phase that ended in May of 1942 with the arrival of 2,000 American troops. In 1959, the inhabitants of the islands voted to become a French overseas territory and officially assumed this status in July 1961.
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