The Republic of Nauru is a sovereign island nation

Island nation

An island country is a state whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. As of 2011, 47 of the 193 UN member states are island countries.-Politics:...

 located in the Micronesia

Micronesia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....

n South Pacific

Pacific Ocean

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. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island

Banaba Island

Banaba Island , an island in the Pacific Ocean, is a solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island chain and 300 km east of Nauru. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. It has an area of 6.5 km², and the highest point on the island is also the highest point in Kiribati, at 81...

 in the Republic of Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population exceeds just over 100,000 , and is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, straddling the...

, 300 kilometres (186.4 mi) due east. Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometre, the smallest independent republic

Republic

A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of...

, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital. It is the least populous member of the United Nations

United Nations

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.

Initially inhabited by Micronesia

Micronesia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....

n and Polynesia

Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language, culture and beliefs...

n peoples, Nauru was annex

Annexation

Annexation is the de jure incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity . Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities, barring physical size...

ed and designated a colony

Colony

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 by Germany

German Empire

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 in the late 19th century, and became a mandate territory

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 administered by Australia

Australia

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 following World War I

World War I

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. The island

Island

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 was occupied by Japan

Empire of Japan

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 during World War II

World War II

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, and after the war entered into trusteeship again. Nauru achieved independence in 1968.

Nauru is a phosphate rock island

Island

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, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island. With the exhaustion of phosphate reserves, its environment severely degraded by mining, and the trust established to manage the island's wealth significantly reduced in value, the government of Nauru has resorted to unusual measures to obtain income. In the 1990s, Nauru briefly became a tax haven

Tax haven

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 and money laundering

Money laundering

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 center. Since 2001, it accepted aid from the Australian government; in exchange for this aid, Nauru housed, until early 2008, an offshore detention centre

Nauru detention centre

The detention center on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru was based on a Statement of Principles, signed on 10 September 2001 by the President of Nauru, René Harris, and Australia's then Minister for Defence, Peter Reith. The statement opened the way to establish a detention center for up...

 that held and processed asylum seekers

Right of asylum

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 trying to enter Australia

Australia

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.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nauru:

General reference

• Pronunciation
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  :
• Common English country name: Nauru
  Nauru
  Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...
  
  
• Official English country name: The Republic of Nauru
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Nauruan
  Nauruan
  Nauruan may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to the country of Nauru* Nauruan people, persons from Nauru, or of Nauruan descent. For more information see Demographics of Nauru and Culture of Nauru. For specific persons, see List of Nauruans....
  
  
• Demonym(s): Nauruan
  Nauruan
  Nauruan may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to the country of Nauru* Nauruan people, persons from Nauru, or of Nauruan descent. For more information see Demographics of Nauru and Culture of Nauru. For specific persons, see List of Nauruans....
  
  s
• Etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
  
  : Name of Nauru
• ISO country codes: NR, NRU, 520
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NR
  ISO 3166-2:NR
  ISO 3166-2:NR is the entry for Nauru in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Nauru, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...
  
  
• Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
  : .nr
  .nr
  .nr is the Internet country code top-level domain for Nauru. .nr domains must be paid, and can be ordered from CenpacNet, Nauru's Internet service provider.The setup of .nr was done in 2002 by Franck Martin using specific custom code....
  
  

Geography of Nauru

• Nauru is: a country
• Location:
  • Southern Hemisphere
    Southern Hemisphere
    The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
    
     and Eastern Hemisphere
    Eastern Hemisphere
    The Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere or eastern hemisphere, is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180° longitude. It is also used to refer to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, vis-à-vis the Western Hemisphere, which includes...
    
    
  • Pacific Ocean
    Pacific Ocean
    The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
    
    
    • South Pacific
      • Oceania
        Oceania
        Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
        
        
        • Micronesia
          Micronesia
          Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....
          
          
  • Time zone
    Time zone
    A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
    
    : UTC+12
    UTC+12
    UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :*Kiribati**Gilbert Islands and Banaba*Marshall Islands*Nauru*Russia**Chukotka Autonomous Okrug**Kamchatka Krai**Kuril Islands...
    
    
  • Extreme points of Nauru
    • High: Command Ridge
      Command Ridge
      Command Ridge is the highest point of Nauru, with an altitude of .-External links: , Topoworld.com....
      
       71 m (233 ft)
    • Low: South Pacific Ocean 0 m
  • Land boundaries: none
  • Coastline: South Pacific Ocean 30 km
• Population of Nauru: 10,000 - 214th most populous country
• Area of Nauru: 21 km²
• Atlas of Nauru

Environment of Nauru

• Climate of Nauru
• Environmental issues in Nauru
• Ecoregions in Nauru
• Renewable energy in Nauru
• Geology of Nauru
  Geology of Nauru
  Nauru is positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.From mid Eocene to Oligocene times a submarine volcano built up over a hotspot, and formed a seamount composed of basalt. The seamount is over 4300 metres high....
  
  
• Protected areas of Nauru
  • Biosphere reserves in Nauru
  • National parks of Nauru
• Wildlife of Nauru
  • Flora of Nauru
  • Fauna of Nauru
    • Birds of Nauru
    • Mammals of Nauru

Natural geographic features of Nauru

• Fjords of Nauru: None
• Glaciers of Nauru: None
• Islands of Nauru
• Lakes of Nauru
• Mountains of Nauru
  • Volcanoes in Nauru: None
• Rivers of Nauru
  • Waterfalls of Nauru: None
• Valleys of Nauru: None
• World Heritage Sites in Nauru: None

Administrative divisions of Nauru

• Districts of Nauru
  Districts of Nauru
  ||There are 14 districts in the Republic of Nauru. Each one consists of a number of traditional villages, many of which are uninhabited or destroyed nowadays.-See also:*List of cities in Nauru*ISO 3166-2:NR...
  
  

Municipalities of Nauru

• Capital of Nauru: the Yaren District is the defacto capital of Nauru
• Cities of Nauru

Government and politics of Nauru

Main article: Government of Nauru and Politics of Nauru

Politics of Nauru

Politics of Nauru takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament...

• Form of government
  Form of government
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  :
• Capital of Nauru: Capital of Nauru

• Elections in Nauru
  Elections in Nauru
  Elections in Nauru gives information on election and election results in Nauru.Nauru elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. Parliament has 18 members, elected for a three year term in multi-seat constituencies...
  
  
  • (specific elections)
• Political parties in Nauru
• Political scandals of Nauru
• Taxation in Nauru - There are no personal taxes in Nauru.

Executive branch of the government of Nauru

• Head of state
  Head of State
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  /Head of government
  Head of government
  Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
  
  : President of Nauru
  President of Nauru
  The President of Nauru is elected by Parliament from amongst its members. He is both the head of state and head of government of Nauru. Nauru's unicameral Parliament has 18 members, with an electoral term of 3 years. Political parties only play a minor role in Nauru politics, and there has often...
  
   Marcus Stephen
  Marcus Stephen
  Marcus Stephen was President of the Republic of Nauru from December 2007 to November 2011. In addition to the presidency, he held the offices of Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, Minister for Police, Prisons, & Emergency Services, and Minister for Public...
  
  
• Capital of Nauru: the Yaren District is the defacto capital of Nauru

Legislative branch of the government of Nauru

• Parliament of Nauru
  Parliament of Nauru
  The Parliament of Nauru has 18 members, elected for a three year term in multi-seat constituencies. The President of Nauru is elected by the members of the Parliament.The members of the Parliament of Nauru are elected by a positional voting system....
  
   (bicameral)
  • Upper house
    Upper house
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    : Senate of Nauru
  • Lower house
    Lower house
    A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...
    
    : House of Commons of Nauru

Judicial branch of the government of Nauru

• Supreme Court of Nauru
  Supreme Court of Nauru
  The Supreme Court of Nauru is the highest judicial court of the Republic of Nauru.-Constitutional establishment:It is established by part V of the Constitution, adopted upon Nauru's independence from Australia in 1968. Art. 48 of the Constitution establishes the Supreme Court as "a superior court...
  
  

Foreign relations of Nauru

• Diplomatic missions in Nauru
• Diplomatic missions of Nauru
  Diplomatic missions of Nauru
  This is a list of diplomatic missions of Nauru, not including its honorary consulates in Agana, Auckland, London, Honolulu, Pago Pago and New Delhi. Nauru is the smallest republic in the world. It was previously quite wealthy, thanks to royalties collected from phosphate mining...
  
  
• Australia-Nauru relations
  Australia-Nauru relations
  Australian–Nauruan relations go back almost a century. Australia administered Nauru as a dependent territory from 1914 to 1968, and has remained one of Nauru's foremost economic and aid partners thereafter...
  
  

International organization membership

The Republic of Nauru is a member of:

• African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• Asian Development Bank
  Asian Development Bank
  The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
  
   (ADB)
• Commonwealth of Nations
  Commonwealth of Nations
  The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  Food and Agriculture Organization
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
  
   (FAO)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  International Civil Aviation Organization
  The International Civil Aviation Organization , pronounced , , is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth...
  
   (ICAO)
• International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
  The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
  
   (ICCt)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)
• International Telecommunication Union
  International Telecommunication Union
  The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
  
   (ITU)

• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Pacific Islands Forum
  Pacific Islands Forum
  The Pacific Islands Forum is an inter-governmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean. It was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum...
  
   (PIF)
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community
  Secretariat of the Pacific Community
  The Secretariat of the Pacific Community, or SPC , is a regional intergovernmental organisation whose membership includes both nations and territories...
  
   (SPC)
• South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
  South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
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   (Sparteca)
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (UN)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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   (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• Universal Postal Union
  Universal Postal Union
  The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
  
   (UPU)
• World Health Organization
  World Health Organization
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   (WHO)

Law and order in Nauru

• Capital punishment in Nauru
• Constitution of Nauru
  Constitution of Nauru
  The constitution of the Republic of Nauru was adopted following national independence on 31 January 1968.In 2007 there were political debates in progress with a view to amend aspects of the Constitution, owing to the challenge of widely acknowledged political instability...
  
  
• Crime in Nauru
  Crime in Nauru
  Partially at the behest of the international community, Nauru’s government no longer sanctions certain activities that, while technically legal, could serve to facilitate criminal activity. In 2003, it ended the controversial practice of selling its passports. It also banned offshore banks...
  
  
• Human rights in Nauru
  Human rights in Nauru
  Nauru is a small island country in the South Pacific. With a population of 9,322 it is the world’s least populous independent republic. Nauru’s government is based around its constitution, part two of which contains ‘protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.' The Human Rights Council carried...
  
  
  • LGBT rights in Nauru
    LGBT rights in Nauru
    Gay and bisexual people living in the island nation Nauru face certain unique legal and social challenges. Male-male homosexual acts remain illegal and there is no legal recognition of same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partnership benefits...
    
    
  • Freedom of religion in Nauru
• Law enforcement in Nauru

Military of Nauru

Nauru has no regular military forces. Nauru's defense is the responsibility of Australia.

History of Nauru

Main article: History of Nauru

History of Nauru

The history of Nauru has been intrinsically linked with the extraction of phosphate. Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906. Following World War I it became a League of...

, Timeline of the history of Nauru, and Current events of Nauru

• Economic history of Nauru
• Military history of Nauru
• Japanese occupation of Nauru
  Japanese occupation of Nauru
  The Japanese occupation of Nauru is the period of three years during which Nauru, a Pacific island was occupied by the Japanese army as part of the operations of the Pacific War during World War II...
  
  

Culture of Nauru

• Architecture of Nauru
• Cuisine of Nauru
• Ethnic minorities in Nauru
• Festivals in Nauru
• Humor in Nauru
• Languages of Nauru
• Media in Nauru
• National symbols of Nauru
  • Coat of arms of Nauru
    Coat of arms of Nauru
    The design of the coat of arms of the Republic of Nauru originated in 1968 following the declaration of independence, and it began to be used officially in the early 1970s.-Features:Its shield is divided and separated in the middle...
    
    
  • Flag of Nauru
    Flag of Nauru
    Following the indepencence of Nauru, the flag of Nauru was raised for the first time.The flag, chosen in a local design competition, was adopted on independence day, January 31, 1968. It depicts Nauru's geographical position, one degree below the Equator. A gold horizontal stripe representing the...
    
    
  • National anthem of Nauru
• People of Nauru
• Prostitution in Nauru
• Public holidays in Nauru
  Public holidays in Nauru
  Holidays in Nauru. Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia....
  
  
• Records of Nauru
• Religion in Nauru
  Religion in Nauru
  Christianity is the primary religion in Nauru. According to the 2002 census, approximately two-thirds of Christians are Protestant, and the remainder are Catholic.The largest denomination is the Nauru Congregational Church. The ethnic Chinese on the island, approximately 3 to 4 percent of the...
  
  
  • Buddhism in Nauru
  • Christianity in Nauru
  • Hinduism in Nauru
  • Islam in Nauru
  • Judaism in Nauru
  • Sikhism in Nauru
• World Heritage Sites in Nauru: None

Art in Nauru

• Art in Nauru
• Cinema of Nauru
• Literature of Nauru
• Music of Nauru
  Music of Nauru
  The music of Nauru demonstrates its Micronesian heritage.-Historical background:Its music has been scantly recorded and documented, partially as a result of a ban on traditional dance by German colonial authorities after the 1888 annexation by Germany....
  
  
• Television in Nauru
• Theatre in Nauru

Sports in Nauru

• Football in Nauru
• Nauru at the Olympics

Economy and infrastructure of Nauru

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 189th (one hundred and eighty ninth)

• Agriculture in Nauru
• Banking in Nauru
  • National Bank of Nauru
• Communications in Nauru
  Communications in Nauru
  Nauru has one government-owned radio station and two television stations. One station is government-owned and mainly rebroadcasts CNN and the other is a private sports network...
  
  
  • Internet in Nauru
• Companies of Nauru

• Currency of Nauru
  Currency
  In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
  
  : Dollar
  Australian dollar
  The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...
  
  
  • ISO 4217
    ISO 4217
    ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
    
    : AUD
    Aud
    Aud might refer to*Australian dollar *Ambedkar University, Delhi *American University in Dubai *Doctor of Audiology *Auðr, the son of Nótt and Naglfari in Norse mythology...
    
    

• Economic history of Nauru
• Energy in Nauru
  • Energy policy of Nauru
  • Oil industry in Nauru
• Mining in Nauru
• Tourism in Nauru
  Tourism in Nauru
  The Republic of Nauru is a small, isolated Western Pacific island nation, lacking many of the tourist facilities of some of its larger neighbors, such as Fiji, the Cook Islands, or even New Caledonia...
  
  
• Transport in Nauru
  Transport in Nauru
  Nauru has one 24 km paved road that circles the island and a dirt track that leads to the Nauru Phosphate Corporation stockpile and offices. There is one artificial harbour at Anibare Bay. The island's airport consists of a stretch of road that serves as a runway and an airline terminal. Air...
  
  

• Nauru Stock Exchange

Infrastructure of Nauru

• Health care in Nauru
• Transportation in Nauru
  • Airports in Nauru
  • Rail transport in Nauru
    Rail transport in Nauru
    Rail transport in Nauru is used for moving phosphate from the island's interior to the cantilever jetties on the island's western coast, in Aiwo District. For this purpose, a 3.9 km long 610mm narrow gauge railway was built by the Pacific Phosphate Company in 1907. The gauge was upgraded to 914mm...
    
    
  • Roads in Nauru
• Water supply and sanitation in Nauru

See also

• Index of Nauru-related articles
  Index of Nauru-related articles
  -A:*Aiwo Constituency*Aiwo District*Anabar District*Anetan District*Angelita Detudamo*Anibare District*Areop-Enap*Australian rules football in Nauru-C:*Canals in Nauru*Centre Party *Constitution of Nauru*Crime in Nauru*Culture of Nauru-M:...
  
  
• List of international rankings
• List of Nauru-related topics
• Member state of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Member state of the United Nations
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of Oceania
  Outline of Oceania
  Oceania is a geographical, and often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term is also sometimes used to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate Pacific islands,....
  
  

External links

• Nauru, Permanent Mission to the United Nations
• Asian Development Bank Country Economic Report, Nauru, November 2007
• Our Airline - the former Air Nauru
• Discover Nauru The Official Nauru Tourism Website
• CenPac - The ISP of the Republic of Nauru
• Radio program "This American Life" featured a 30-minute story on Nauru
• High resolution aerial views of Nauru on Google Maps
• Nauru country information on globalEDGE