Outline of Nauru

The location of Nauru

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nauru:

Nauru – sovereign island nation located in the Micronesian South Pacific.^[1] Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 300 kilometres (190 mi) due east. Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometres (8 sq mi), the smallest independent republic, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital. It is the least populous member of the United Nations.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed and designated a colony by Germany in the late 19th century, and became a mandate territory administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom following World War I. The island was occupied by Japan during World War II, and after the war entered into trusteeship again. Nauru achieved independence in 1968.

Nauru is a phosphate rock island, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island.^[2] With the exhaustion of phosphate reserves, its environment severely degraded by mining, and the trust established to manage the island's wealth significantly reduced in value, the government of Nauru has resorted to unusual measures to obtain income. In the 1990s, Nauru briefly became a tax haven and money laundering center. Since 2001, it accepted aid from the Australian government; in exchange for this aid, Nauru housed, until early 2008, an offshore detention centre that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia.^[3]

General reference

File:Nauru-CIA WFB Map.png

An enlargeable basic map of Nauru

Pronunciation:
Common English country name: Nauru
Official English country name: The Republic of Nauru
Common endonym(s):
Official endonym(s):
Adjectival(s): Nauruan
Demonym(s): Nauruans
Etymology: Name of Nauru
ISO country codes: NR, NRU, 520
ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NR
Internet country code top-level domain: .nr

Geography of Nauru

Nauru is: a country
Location:
- Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere
- Pacific Ocean
  - South Pacific
    - Oceania
      - Micronesia
- Time zone: UTC+12
- Extreme points of Nauru
  - High: Command Ridge 71 m (233 ft)
  - Low: South Pacific Ocean 0 m
- Land boundaries: none
- Coastline: South Pacific Ocean 30 km
Population of Nauru: 10,000 - 214th most populous country
Area of Nauru: 21 km²
Atlas of Nauru

Environment of Nauru

An enlargeable satellite image of Nauru

Natural geographic features of Nauru

Islands of Nauru: Nauru consists in a single island
Lakes of Nauru: one: Buada Lagoon^[4]
Mountains of Nauru: none
Rivers of Nauru: none^[4]
World Heritage Sites in Nauru: none

Regions of Nauru

Ecoregions of Nauru

Administrative divisions of Nauru

Districts of Nauru

Districts of Nauru

Municipalities of Nauru

Capital of Nauru: the Yaren District is the defacto capital of Nauru
Cities of Nauru

Demography of Nauru

Government and politics of Nauru

Main article: Government of Nauru and Politics of Nauru

Form of government: parliamentary republic
Capital of Nauru: Yaren District (de facto only; there is no official capital)

Elections in Nauru
Political parties in Nauru: none

Branches of the government of Nauru

Foreign relations of Nauru

International organization membership

The Republic of Nauru is a member of:^[1]

African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Commonwealth of Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Criminal Court (ICCt)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement (Sparteca)
United Nations (UN)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Law and order in Nauru

Military of Nauru

Nauru has no regular military forces. Nauru's defense is the responsibility of Australia.

Local government in Nauru

History of Nauru

Main article: History of Nauru, Timeline of the history of Nauru, and Current events of Nauru

Culture of Nauru

Art in Nauru

Sports in Nauru

Economy and infrastructure of Nauru

Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 189th (one hundred and eighty ninth)

Currency of Nauru: Dollar
- ISO 4217: AUD

Nauru Stock Exchange

Education in Nauru

Infrastructure of Nauru

References

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External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Nauru

Nauru, Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Asian Development Bank Country Economic Report, Nauru, November 2007
Our Airline - the former Air Nauru
Discover Nauru The Official Nauru Tourism Website
CenPac - The ISP of the Republic of Nauru
Radio program "This American Life" featured a 30-minute story on Nauru
Nauru at DMOZ
High resolution aerial views of Nauru on Google Maps
Nauru country information on globalEDGE

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