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Area : 4706  sq.mi - Population 211971 hab.
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Around 1500 BC: the archipelago of Vanuatu was populated by people from the Solomon Isles.
11th to the 15th centuries: Polynesians settled.
1606: Portuguese Fernandes de Queiros discovered the archipelago.
1774: Cook named the area the New Hebrides.
In 1906, a Franco-British condominium was established.
1980: Vanuatu was declared independent.
1989: Frederick Timakata became President.
March 1994: Jean-Marie Leye became Head of State.
March 1998: an English-speaking coalition government is elected.