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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nauru: Nauru – sovereign island nation located in the

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, due east. Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just , the smallest independent republic, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital. It is the least populous member of the

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n peoples, Nauru was

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ed and designated a

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in the late 19th century, and became a

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administered by Australia,

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, and the

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following

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. The

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was occupied by Japan during

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, and after the war entered into trusteeship again. Nauru achieved independence in 1968. Nauru is a

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, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island.Republic of Nauru Permanent Mission to the United Nations
. Retrieved 2006-05-10. 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

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and money laundering centre. 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.

General reference

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: * Common English country name: Nauru * Official English country name: The

Republic 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 Ki ...

* Common endonym(s): Naoero * Official endonym(s): Repubrikin Naoero * Adjectival(s): Nauruan * Demonym(s): Nauruans *

Etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

: Name of Nauru *

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: NR, NRU, 520 *

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: .nr

Geography of Nauru

Geography of Nauru Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania. It is only south of the Equator at coordinates . Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific O ...

* Nauru is: a

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* Location: ** Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere **

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*** South Pacific ****

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** Extreme points of Nauru *** High: Command Ridge *** Low:

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0 m ** Land boundaries: ''none'' ** Coastline:

30 km * Population of Nauru: 10,000 - 214th most populous country * * Area of Nauru: 21 km² * Atlas of Nauru *

Nauruan navigational system The Nauruan navigational system is a way of expressing direction, similar to North, South, East and West, but limitations in the system mean that it is unable to be used outside of Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of ...

Environment of Nauru

* Climate of Nauru * Renewable energy in Nauru * Geology of Nauru * Protected areas of Nauru ** Biosphere reserves in Nauru ** National parks of Nauru * Wildlife of Nauru ** Fauna of Nauru *** Birds of Nauru *** Mammals of Nauru

Natural geographic features of Nauru

* Islands of Nauru: Nauru consists in a single island * Lakes of Nauru: one:

Buada Lagoon Buada Lagoon is a landlocked, slightly brackish, freshwater lake of Buada District in the island nation of Nauru. It occupies about . The lagoon is classified as an endorheic lake, meaning there is no outflow to other bodies of water such as ...

Nauru on Google Sites
/ref> * Mountains of Nauru: none * Rivers of Nauru: none * World Heritage Sites in Nauru: none

Regions of Nauru

Ecoregions of Nauru

List of ecoregions in Nauru * Ecoregions in Nauru

Administrative divisions of Nauru

Administrative divisions of Nauru * Districts of Nauru

= Districts of Nauru

= Municipalities of Nauru

= Municipalities of Nauru * Capital of Nauru: the

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.de facto ''De facto'' ( ; , "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with ''de jure'' ("by la ...

capital of Nauru * Cities of Nauru

Demography of Nauru

Demographics of Nauru

Government and politics of Nauru

Politics of Nauru The politics of Nauru take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and th ...

* Form of government: parliamentary republic * Capital of Nauru:

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.Elections in Nauru Nauru elects on a national level a head of state (the president) and a legislature. Parliament has 19 members (increased from 18 for the 2013 election), elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies. The president is elected for a th ...

Political parties in Nauru This article lists political parties in Nauru. In Nauru, political parties do not play a major a role, as in many countries with parliamentary systems, but they have been formed. Officially, however, Nauru remains a non-party democracy. As the ...

: none

Branches of the government of Nauru

Government of Nauru The politics of Nauru take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the ...

Executive branch of the government of Nauru

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President of Nauru The president of Nauru is elected by Parliament from among its members, and is both the head of state and the head of government of Nauru. Nauru's unicameral Parliament has 19 members, with an electoral term of 3 years. Political parties onl ...

Sprent Dabwido Sprent Arumogo Dabwido (16 September 1972 – 8 May 2019) was a Nauruan politician who served as the President of Nauru between 2011 and 2013, and was also a weightlifter. The son of a parliamentarian, Dabwido was originally elected to the Men ...

Legislative branch of the government of Nauru

Parliament of Nauru The Parliament of Nauru has 19 members, elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies. The President of Nauru is elected by the members of the Parliament.

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Judicial branch of the government of Nauru

Court system of Nauru *

Supreme Court of Nauru The Supreme Court of Nauru was the highest court in the judicial system of the Republic of Nauru till the establishment of the Nauruan Court of Appeal in 2018. Constitutional establishment It is established by part V of the Constitution, adop ...

Foreign relations of Nauru

Foreign relations of Nauru Nauru, following independence from the United Kingdom, became a sovereign, independent republic on 31 January 1968. Nauru has established diplomatic relations with a number of nations, including most of its Pacific neighbors with which it maint ...

Diplomatic missions in Nauru Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, p ...

Diplomatic missions of Nauru This is a list of diplomatic missions of Nauru, not including its honorary consulates in Agana, Auckland, London, Honolulu, Pago Pago and New Delhi. Nauru is the smallest republic in the world. It was previously quite wealthy, thanks to royalti ...

* Australia-Nauru relations

International organisation membership

The Republic of Nauru is a member of: *

African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. Formerly known as African, Caribbean and Pacific Group ...

(ACP) *

Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offic ...

(ADB) *

Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the ...

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(FAO) *

International Civil Aviation Organization The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international a ...

(ICAO) *

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals f ...

(ICCt) *

International Criminal Police Organization The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

(Interpol) *

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

(IOC) *

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

(ITU) *

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997. The OPCW, with its 193 member ...

(OPCW) * Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) *

Secretariat of the Pacific Community The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories. The organisation's headquarters are in Nouméa, ...

(SPC) * South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement (Sparteca) *

(UN) *

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

(UNCTAD) *

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(UNESCO) *

Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union (UPU, french: link=no, Union postale universelle), established by the Treaty of Bern of 1874, is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to ...

(UPU) *

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(WHO)

Law and order in Nauru

Law of Nauru Nauruan law, since Nauru's independence from Australia in 1968, is derived primarily from English and Australian common law, though it also integrates indigenous customary law to a limited extent. Nauruan common law is founded mainly on statute ...

Constitution of Nauru The constitution of the Republic of Nauru was adopted following national independence on 31 January 1968. In 2007 there were political debates in progress with a view to amend aspects of the Constitution, owing to the challenge of widely acknowle ...

Crime in Nauru Partially at the behest of the international community, Nauru’s government no longer sanctions certain activities that, while technically legal, could serve to facilitate criminal activity. In 2003, it ended the controversial practice of selling ...

Human rights in Nauru Nauru is a small island country in the South Pacific. With a population of 13,649 it is the world's least populous independent republic. Nauru's government operates under its constitution, part two of which contains 'protection of fundamental righ ...

LGBT rights in Nauru Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people living in Nauru face legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBT persons. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal since May 2016, but there are no legal recognition of same-sex u ...

** Freedom of religion in Nauru * Law enforcement in Nauru

Military of Nauru

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

Local government in Nauru

History of Nauru

History of Nauru The history of human activity in Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, began roughly 3,000 years ago when clans settled the island. Early history Nauru was settled by Micronesians around 3,000 years ago, and there is evidence of po ...

* Timeline of the history of Nauru * Current events of Nauru * Military history of Nauru * Japanese occupation of Nauru

Culture of Nauru

Culture of Nauru The displacement of the traditional culture of Nauru by contemporary western influences is evident on the island. Little remains from the old customs. The traditions of arts and crafts are nearly lost. Arts and crafts The inhabitants of Naur ...

* Architecture of Nauru * Cuisine of Nauru * Festivals in Nauru * Languages of Nauru * Media in Nauru ** Television in Nauru * National symbols of Nauru ** Coat of arms of Nauru **

Flag of Nauru Following the independence of Nauru, the flag of Nauru ( na, anidenin Naoero) was raised for the first time. The flag, chosen in a local design competition, was adopted on independence day, 31 January 1968. The design symbolically depicts Naur ...

** National anthem of Nauru * People of Nauru * Public holidays in Nauru * Records of Nauru * Religion in Nauru ** Christianity in Nauru ** Hinduism in Nauru ** Islam in Nauru ** Judaism in Nauru ** Sikhism in Nauru * World Heritage Sites in Nauru: None

Art in Nauru

* Art in Nauru * Cinema of Nauru * Literature of Nauru * Music of Nauru * Theatre in Nauru

Sports in Nauru

Sports in Nauru * Football in Nauru * Nauru at the Olympics

Economy and infrastructure of Nauru

Economy of Nauru The economy of Nauru is tiny, based on a population in 2019 of only 11,550 people. The economy has historically been based on phosphate mining. With primary phosphate reserves exhausted by the end of the 2010s, Nauru has sought to diversify its ...

* Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 189th (one hundred and eighty ninth) * Agriculture in Nauru * Banking in Nauru ** National Bank of Nauru * Communications in Nauru ** Internet in Nauru * Companies of Nauru * Currency of Nauru:

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* Energy in Nauru ** Energy policy of Nauru ** Oil industry in Nauru * Mining in Nauru * Tourism in Nauru ** Visa policy of Nauru *

Transport in Nauru Transportation in Nauru includes pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, train, and airplane. Ocean The Nauru international port which is currently under construction on Nauru in the Pacific Ocean. With an anticipated opening in 2021, it will become t ...

* Nauru Stock Exchange

Education in Nauru

Education in Nauru Education in Nauru is compulsory for children between the ages of 5 and 16. There are eleven schools in Nauru, including three primary schools and two secondary schools (Nauru College and Nauru Secondary School). There is an Able/Disable Centre f ...

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 ...

* Nauru College

Infrastructure of Nauru

* Health care in Nauru * Transportation in Nauru ** Airports in Nauru ** Rail transport in Nauru ** Roads in Nauru * Water supply and sanitation in Nauru

References

External links

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
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High resolution aerial views of Nauru on Google Maps

Nauru country information on globalEDGE
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nauru Outlines of countries