Funafuti in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

📺

Tuvalu was assigned the .tv domain by accident of its name and licenses it for a large share of government revenue.

🛬

The airstrip is the widest flat space on the atoll, so it doubles as the football pitch and the evening meeting place between flights.

🌊

The lagoon is much larger than the land. The inhabited strip is a few hundred metres across in places.

⚠️

Sea level rise is a practical planning question here rather than a distant one, and the government has been negotiating for it.

🥥

Coconut and fish, because the soil is coral sand and will not grow much else.

Funafuti at a glance

Country

Tuvalu

Coordinates

8.52° S, 179.20° E

First played

28 April 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Funafuti.