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Geography
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
0 32 S, 166 55 E
Area: 
total: 21 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
239
land: 21 sq km
water: 0 sq km
about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
0 km
30 km
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Current Weather
tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)
sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed elevation along plateau rim 61 m
phosphates, fish
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 100% (2005)
NA
periodic droughts
limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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; only 53 km south of Equator
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