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Nauru

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INSIDE NAURU - the world's least visited country

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The Story of Nauru - How Once the Richest Country Lost Everything?!

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The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate iIself"

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Geography Now! NAURU

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The History of Nauru: How The World's Wealthiest Country Lost Everything | NowThis World

Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, north of the Solomon Islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshall Islands. With 11,347 residents in a 21-square-kilometre (8.1 sq mi) area, Nauru is the smallest state in the South Pacific, smallest republic and third-smallest state by area in the world, behind only Vatican City and Monaco.
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