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Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific. It is a microstate and its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 km (190 mi) to the east.
Map of Yaren Nauru International Airport. Yaren (in earlier times Makwa/Moqua) is a district of the Pacific island country of Nauru. It is the de facto capital of Nauru and is coextensive with Yaren Constituency. It is also the fourth-least-populated capital in the world. [2] [3]
Yaren is one of the constituencies of Nauru. It returns two members from Yaren to the Parliament of Nauru in Yaren, [ 1 ] and also is the de facto capital of Nauru. Members of Parliament
Yaren District (or Yaren), the de facto capital of Nauru; Yaren Constituency, an electoral constituency of Nauru; Yaren, İvrindi, a village in Turkey; Yaren (stork), a stork popularly known for its friendship with a fisherman in Turkey.
Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometres (8 sq mi), the smallest independent republic, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital. It is the least populous member of the United Nations .
Northernmost capital of an independent sovereign state in the world. 64.18 Nuuk: Greenland: Self-governing territory of the Danish Realm. Northernmost capital of a constituent state in the world. 78.22 Longyearbyen: Svalbard: Longyearbyen is the administrative center of Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic unincorporated area.
It is located in the west of the island. It covers an area of 1.1 square kilometres (0.42 sq mi) [citation needed] and has a population of 1,258. [1] It is sometimes called the unofficial capital city of Nauru; Nauru does not have an official capital city, and it is more common for Yaren to be cited as such.
An aerial image of Nauru in 2002 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program. Regenerated vegetation covers 63% of land that was mined. [3] Nauru is a raised coral atoll 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.