{"id":58745,"date":"2025-08-09T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58745"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:28:43","slug":"nauru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nauru\/","title":{"rendered":"Nauru"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Nauru Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A remote Pacific nation, Nauru selling passports to fund climate action has approved just six applicants since early this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Nauru<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nauru is an <\/span><b>island<\/b> <b>nation and a microstate in Oceania,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island is about 1,300 km <\/span><b>northeast of the Solomon Islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; its closest neighbour is the <\/span><b>island of Banaba,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Kiribati, some 300 km to the east.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Topography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nauru is a <\/span><b>raised, fossilized coral atoll<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is one of the three great <\/span><b>phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island is dominated by a central phosphate plateau which is surrounded by coral cliffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phosphate mining has ravaged the interior of the island, leaving about four-fifths of it uninhabitable and uncultivable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>no official capital city.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Located on the southern coast of the island country is the district of Yaren \u2013 the de facto capital of Nauru.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their native <\/span><b>language is Nauruan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but<\/span><b> English<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is widely spoken as it is used for government and commercial purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Political structure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its constitution, adopted upon gaining independence in 1968, established it as a republic with a Westminster-style parliamentary system of government.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_international\/issues\/143037\/OPS\/GJCEN23RJ.1+GJCEO47LR.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/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":24,"featured_media":59068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2102],"class_list":{"0":"post-58745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-nauru","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58745","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}