Geography Of Nauru

Location	Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
Geographic coordinates	0 32 S, 166 55 E
Map references	oceania
Area	total: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 21 sq km
Area comparative	about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries	0 km
Coastline	30 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm
Climate	tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)
Terrain	sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location along plateau rim 61 m
Natural resources	phosphates, fish
Land use	arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2001)
Irrigated land	NA sq km
Natural hazards	periodic droughts
Environment - current issues	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
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography 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; only 53 km south of Equator

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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Geography Of Nauru