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A remote Pacific nation, Nauru selling passports to fund climate action has approved just six applicants since early this year.
About Nauru
- Location: Nauru is an island nation and a microstate in Oceania, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.Â
- The island is about 1,300 km northeast of the Solomon Islands; its closest neighbour is the island of Banaba, in Kiribati, some 300 km to the east.Â
- Topography: Nauru is a raised, fossilized coral atoll and is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean.Â
- The island is dominated by a central phosphate plateau which is surrounded by coral cliffs.Â
- Phosphate mining has ravaged the interior of the island, leaving about four-fifths of it uninhabitable and uncultivable.
- It has no official capital city. Located on the southern coast of the island country is the district of Yaren – the de facto capital of Nauru.
- Language: Their native language is Nauruan, but English is widely spoken as it is used for government and commercial purposes.
- Political structure: Its constitution, adopted upon gaining independence in 1968, established it as a republic with a Westminster-style parliamentary system of government.
Source: TH
Nauru FAQs
Q1: Is Nauru a sovereign nation?
Ans: Nauru is one of the world's smallest independent states.
Q2: Is Nauru a UN member state?
Ans: The Republic of Nauru was admitted as the 187th member state of the United Nations in September 1999.
