🇳🇷 Nauru

Where is Nauru?

Nauru lies in Micronesia, on the continent of Oceania.

It sits in the southern half of the world, roughly 59 km from the equator.

Its coastline is about 30 km long.

It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.

How big is Nauru?

Nauru covers 21 square kilometres.

Luxembourg is about 123 times bigger.

Among the world's countries that makes it the 192nd largest.

Spread everybody out evenly and you get about 605 people on every square kilometre.

That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

Who lives in Nauru?

About 13 000 people live in Nauru.

That is the 192nd biggest population in the world.

People here speak English and Nauru.

They pay with the Australian dollar ($).

On average, people born here can expect to live about 61 years.

The land of Nauru

Its coast runs for about 30 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 2 days.

It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes Nauru different?

Websites from here often end in .nr.

Nauru and the rest of the world

Fewer than one person in every thousand on Earth lives in Nauru.

It takes up less than a hundredth of one per cent of all the land in the world.

Within Oceania the country ranks 14th of 14 by size, and 13th by population.

Nature and animals

The highest mountain in the country is Command Ridge, at 65 metres.

Where this country lands in the record lists

• The 20 smallest countries in the world no. 3
• The 20 countries with the fewest people no. 3
• The most crowded countries in the world no. 11

How big is Nauru compared with the United States?

• The United States is about 446 315 times as big as Nauru: 9 372 610 km² against 21 km².
• The United Kingdom is about 11 567 times as big as Nauru: 242 900 km² against 21 km².

Compare it with any other country