Pacific DataViz Challenge 2026

People, land and a vast ocean

Twenty-two Pacific countries and territories look completely different depending on what we measure. Explore population, land, ocean territory and the relationship between them.

Bubble area encodes the selected metric. Click a place to open Google Maps.

Combined population — Across 22 places
Leading place — —
Share of total — Held by the leader
Places compared 22 Melanesia · Micronesia · Polynesia
Pacific places shown as proportional bubbles An interactive bubble visualization comparing twenty-two Pacific places. Bubble area changes with the selected metric and places are grouped by Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Population view. Each bubble’s area represents its share of the combined estimated population.

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