At the COP27 climate summit in November 2022, Tuvalu became the first nation to announce it would recreate itself in digital form, aiming to preserve its territory, culture, and government functions online against being submerged by sea-level rise.
Record no. MRB-2026-006988
First country to announce plans to build a "digital nation" replica of itself
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