Tarawa Urban Council
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati
''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. in the Micronesia region of the central Pacific Ocean. It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert Islands, Gilberts group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants , half of the country's total population. The atoll was the site of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II.

Etymology

Tarawa is an old Gilbertese form for ''Te Rawa'', meaning "The Passage" (of the Lagoon), named for the unusual large ship channel to the lagoon. In the False etymology, popular etymology based on Kiribati mythology, Nareau, the God-spider, distinguished ''Karawa'', the sky, from ''Marawa' ...
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