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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2015
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2014
Dataset updated: 17th March 2015
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Australian Dollar
Currency Symbol: AUD
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 ; land: 21 sq km ; water: 0 sq km
Area - Comparative: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
Terrain: sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
Elevation Extremes(M): lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m ; highest point: unnamed elevation along plateau rim 61 m
Land Boundaries(Km): 0 km
Coastline: 30 km
Maritime Claims: territorial sea: 12 nm ; contiguous zone: 24 nm ; exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Geography - Note: world's smallest island country; situated just 53 km south of the Equator; 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