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Nauru

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0.53° S / 166.92° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Capital
Yaren
Population
11,947 2024
Area
21 km² (year unavailable)
Languages source-listed
English, Nauru
Currency
Australian dollar (AUD)
Geography
Island country

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.

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Rocks by the Beach Nauru
Rocks by the Beach Nauru · Hadi Zaher https://www.flickr.com/photos/hazara/ · CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP.

FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Nauru

Nauru, officially the Republic of Naoero (pronounced NOW-air-oh), is a small island in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands.

Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-24. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.

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National flower
Not yet verified
Official national dish
Not yet verified
Representative food
Not yet verified
Subregion
Micronesia
Calling code
+674
Internet domain
.nr
Land border codes
None listed

Quick facts

  • Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
  • The country-code web domain is .nr. Source ↗
  • The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.

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Nauru in context

Population in 2024

#193 of 194

Among the atlas countries with a 2024 World Bank observation. Population source ↗

Area in the atlas

#193 of 195

By source-listed total area, largest first. This is separate from the population ranking. Geography source ↗

Size compared with nearby values

These named countries are in the same source continent and have the closest total areas. They are comparison points, not necessarily neighbours.

Area compared with Nauru
CountryArea (km²)Ratio
Nauru211.00×
Tuvalu261.24×
Marshall Islands1818.62×
Palau45921.86×

Ratio = comparison country's source area ÷ Nauru's source area; rounded to two decimals. Rankings use competition ranks (ties share a rank). Area values use the pinned geographic snapshot, not a population observation year.

Land neighbours

Land neighbours in this atlas: none. This follows the source-listed borders.

Source-listed time zones

UTC+12:00

Static source offsets, not a live clock or daylight-saving calculation. Source ↗

Computed from the atlas snapshot retrieved September 26, 2026. Population rank excludes the one country without 2024 data; no claim of an all-territory global ranking.

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