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Wallis and Futuna Islands

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Wal⋅lis and Fu⋅tu⋅na Is⋅lands

[foo-too-nuh]
–noun (used with a plural verb)
a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean: overseas territory of France. 14,900; 106 sq. mi. (274 sq. km).
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Wal·lis and Fu·tu·na Islands   (wŏl'ĭs; fōō-tōō'nə)   
A French overseas territory consisting of two groups of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean west of Samoa and northeast of Fiji. Controlled by the French from 1842, the islands became an overseas territory in 1961.
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