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Vanuatu

Vanuatu is one of the 193 UN member states, in Melanesia. UN Tourism counted 256,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 86% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Vanuatu’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
256,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
171st of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 86%
Area
12,339 km² (4,764 sq mi)
Population
300,000Natural Earth estimate
Provinces
6in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
17with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Vanuatu count as a country?

Yes. Vanuatu is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Vanuatu?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Vanuatu stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Vanuatu’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 256,000 international arrivals in 2019, Vanuatu is rarer than 86% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Vanuatu

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Vanuatu when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Vanuatu you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Vanuatu, from 1 World Heritage Site to 6 volcanoes.

World Heritage Sites 1

Chief Roi Mata’s Domain (2008). On the bucket list →

Volcanoes 6

Ambrym · Mount Yasur · Merelava · Kuwae · Lopevi · Mount Gharat. On the bucket list →

Airports

Vanuatu has 17 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

6 provinces to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Vanuatu into 6 provinces (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 6

Malampa · Penama · Sanma · Shefa · Tafea · Torba

Questions people ask

Is Vanuatu a country?

Yes. Vanuatu is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Vanuatu a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 256,000 international arrivals in Vanuatu in 2019, the 171st most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Vanuatu stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 86% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Vanuatu count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Vanuatu

Near Vanuatu

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