Nauru
28 km² · 191st largest of 193
Land borders
None. Nauru shares no land border with any country.
Nearest countries
- Marshall Islands · 970 km
- Solomon Islands · 1260 km
- Micronesia · 1270 km
- Vanuatu · 1650 km
- Fiji · 2270 km
- Samoa · 2700 km
Size
About 28 km², which is roughly the size of Monaco.
Facts that mention Nauru
Nauru was once among the richest countries per person because of what?
Phosphate
Guano-derived phosphate made Nauru extraordinarily wealthy in the 1970s and 80s. The deposits ran out, leaving about 80 percent of the island mined out and largely uninhabitable.
Nauru holds which distinction?
The smallest republic
Nauru covers about 21 km2 with roughly 12,000 people. Only Monaco and Vatican City are smaller, and neither is a republic.