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- <title>
- Nauru: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Nauru
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Oceania, 500 km north-northeast of Papua New Guinea
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- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 21 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 21 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: about one-tenth the size of Washington,
- DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 30 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; monsoonal; rainy season (November to February)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral
- reefs with phosphate plateau in center
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: phosphates
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 0%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 100%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: only 53 km south of Equator
- </p>
- <p>Note: Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the
- Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and
- Makatea in French Polynesia
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