Key Facts about Nauru, Location

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To help meet the cost of moving about 10,000 residents from low-lying homes menaced by rising sea levels and floods, the remote Pacific Ocean nation of Nauru aims to sell citizenships for the climate-threatened island.

About Nauru

Nauru is an island nation and a microstate in Oceania, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
It is the smallest republic in the world with a land area of about 8 square miles and a population of 12,500.
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.
Nauru is a raised, fossilized coral atoll and is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The island is dominated by a central phosphate plateau which is surrounded by coral cliffs.
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.
Their native language is Nauruan, but English is widely spoken as it is used for government and commercial purposes.
Its constitution, adopted upon gaining independence in 1968, established it as a republic with a Westminster-style parliamentary system of government.