Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, Tuvalu is a group of atolls lying south of the equator in the western Pacific Ocean, south of Kiribati and north of the Fiji Islands.

Trivia

  • Tuvalu joined the Commonwealth in 1978.
  • Tuvalu attended its first Commonwealth Games in 1998 with one weightlifter.
  • At the 2002 Games in Manchester two table tennis players represented the nation.