{"id":30247,"date":"2025-02-20T04:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:40:21","slug":"key-facts-about-nauru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-nauru\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Nauru"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nauru Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nauru<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nauru is an <strong>island nation <\/strong>and a microstate in Oceania, located in the <strong>southwestern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> smallest republic in the world<\/strong> with a land area of about 8 square miles and a population of 12,500.<\/li>\n<li>The island is about 1,300 km northeast of the Solomon Islands; its <strong>closest neighbour is <\/strong>the <strong>island of Banaba,<\/strong> in Kiribati, some 300 km to the east.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Nauru is a <strong>raised, fossilized coral atoll<\/strong> and is one of the three great <strong>phosphate rock islands <\/strong>in the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The island is dominated by a <strong>central phosphate plateau<\/strong> which is surrounded by coral cliffs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Phosphate mining has ravaged the interior of the island, leaving about four-fifths of it uninhabitable and uncultivable.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>no official capital city. <\/strong>Located on the southern coast of the island country is the district of <strong>Yaren \u2013 the de facto capital of Nauru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>native language is Nauruan,<\/strong> but <strong>English is widely spoken<\/strong> as it is used for government and commercial purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Its constitution, adopted upon gaining independence in 1968, established it as a <strong>republic with a Westminster-style parliamentary system of government.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nauru FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What language is spoken in Nauru?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The official language of Nauru is Nauruan, a distinct Micronesian language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the capital of Nauru?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Nauru does not have an official capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Does Nauru have a military?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. No, Nauru does not have a military.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/nri\/visit\/a-tiny-island-nation-is-selling-passports-its-main-usp-the-visa-free-access-it-opens-up-to-uk-singapore-and-hong-kong\/articleshow\/118377299.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nauru is an island nation and a microstate in Oceania, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}