There are 15 independent Pacific Island nations in addition to tens of thousands of islands, islets, and atolls. The independent nations are: Northern Mariana Islands Federate States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Palau Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna

List of Pacific Island Countries. Fiji; Kiribati; Marshall Islands; Federated States of Micronesia; Nauru; Palau; Papua New Guinea (also sometimes considered part of the Australian Continent) Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Tuvalu; Vanuatu; Pacific Countries that aren’t really countries. Some islands within the Pacific Islands are ‘almost‘ countries.

The 2007 book Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, considers the phrase Pacific Islands to politically encompass American Samoa, Australia, the Bonin Islands, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, East Timor, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, the Galápagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, the Marshall Islands,...