Nauru
Nauru (officially Republic of Nauru) is a country in Micronesia, with its capital at Yaren, and is home to roughly 11.9K people.
Its official languages are English, Nauru; the currency in circulation is Australian dollar ($); people from here are called Nauruan.
- »Nauru is the smallest island country in the world at about 21 km².
- »Decades of phosphate mining left most of the interior stripped to bare limestone pinnacles.
Nauru shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Kiribati (838 km), Marshall Islands (972 km) and Solomon Islands (1,258 km), measured centre to centre.
Yaren is Nauru's de facto capital, though the country has no officially designated capital city at all.
22 km² (8 sq mi), 195th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Tuvalu.
Population 11,947, 196th of 198 on file. That averages 543 per km² (1,406 per sq mi).
The gold band is the equator; the twelve-pointed star below it marks the island's position just south of it and the twelve original tribes.