district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
in the western part of the island of
Nauru
Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kir ...
. It is the most populous district in Nauru.
It houses the expatriate housing compound "The Location". This makes it Nauru's largest settlement by population. 25.7% of the people in Nauru live in Denigomodu.
Geography
The district, part of the
constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...
of Ubenide, covers an area of 1.18 kmĀ², and has a population of 2,827, making it the most populous of the fourteen Nauruan districts.
Local features
In this district is the laborers' settlement for the
phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthophosphoric acid .
The phosphate or orthophosphate ion is derived from pho ...
The primary and secondary schools serving all of Nauru are Yaren Primary School in
Yaren District
Yaren (in earlier times Makwa/Moqua) is a district of the Pacific nation of Nauru. It is the ''de facto'' capital of Nauru and is coextensive with Yaren Constituency.Meneng District
Meneng (or Menen) is a district located in the Meneng Constituency in the country of Nauru. The constituency elects 2 members to the Parliament of Nauru in Yaren.
Geography
The district is located in the southeast of the island, covering an ar ...
(years 4-6), Nauru College in Denigomodu District (years 7-9), and
Nauru Secondary School
Nauru Secondary School (abbreviated as NSS) is an upper public secondary school in the Yaren District, Nauru, located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Technical & Vocational E ...
OHCHR
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nati ...
. Retrieved on 8 July 2018. "The Education system is 10 schools, there are District Infant schools each ..nd finally Nauru Secondary School (Years 10-12) where compulsory education end at Year 12. ..
Nauru College opened as the Denigomodu School in January 2000 as part of the Rehabilitation and Development Cooperation Agreement between Australia and Nauru, agreed in August 1993. As part of the agreement the governments decided to build Nauru College in March 1999. It was initially Nauru's third primary school, but it was transitioned into a junior high school with Form 1, as Nauruan children vie for scholarships at that educational stage. The government senior high school of the country is
Nauru Secondary School
Nauru Secondary School (abbreviated as NSS) is an upper public secondary school in the Yaren District, Nauru, located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Technical & Vocational E ...
UNESCO
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. p. 321 (PDF p. 23). "English is used as the language of instruction (except in the Location School for children of the Phosphate Company workers)."
Notable people
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Olympia Zacharias
Olympia Zacharias (born 17 January 1986) is a Nauruan runner who competed at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics
The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were h ...
(b. 1986), 100m runner
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Angelita Detudamo
Angelita Detudamo (born 31 October 1986 in Denigomodu) is a Nauruan female tennis player.
During her first year of playing for Pacific Oceania at the 2004 Fed Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international te ...
(b. 1986),
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
player
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Joanne Gobure
Joanne Ekamdeiya Gobure (born April 26, 1982 in Nauru) is a Nauruan poet.
Biography
Gobure was born in Denigomodu and settled in a district of Uaboe. Gobure is the cousin of Nauruan tennis player Chris Gobure, who played in the South Pacific ...
(b. 1982), poet
Economy
Denigomodu is highly dependent on tourism; it is the largest city in
Nauru
Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kir ...
. Despite its relative wealth and size in comparison to Yaren, Denigomodu is not considered the central capital of
Nauru
Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kir ...
.
See also
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List of settlements in Nauru
The Republic of Nauru originally consisted of 169 villages; by 1900 these were already partly abandoned, uninhabited or destroyed. With the increasing population growth the single villages merged into a single connected settlement, which today ...
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Rail transport in Nauru
Rail transport in Nauru is used for moving calcium pyrophosphate from the island's interior to the cantilever jetties on the island's western coast. For this purpose, a 3,900 m long, 0.6096 m narrow gauge railway was built by the Pacific Phosp ...