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Nauru
Yaren District

Yaren District

Yaren is a district of the Pacific island country of . It is the de facto capital of Nauru and is coextensive with Yaren Constituency. Yaren is located on the southern coast of the island and is the location of Nauru's government offices.
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  • Type: Village with 747 residents
  • Description: District and de facto capital of Nauru
  • Also known as: “Yaren”
  • Historically known as: “Makwa” and “Moqua”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nauru International Airport and Naoero Museum.

Aerodrome
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is the sole airport in the island nation of in the Central Pacific. The airport provides service to regional destinations via the national airline, Nauru Airlines.

Museum
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Nauru Museum or is the national museum of the . Located in Yaren, the museum formally opened on 30 January 2019. Entry is free and the opening hours are 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

School
is an upper public secondary school in the Yaren District, , located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Technical & Vocational Education Training Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arenibek and Arijejen.

Village
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is a village in , , around the , which forms a depression within the plateau. The population is distributed there along a road which surrounds the Buada Lagoon, itself connected to Island Ring Road, Nauru's main road.

Village
is a village located in Denigomodu District, . The population of the village as of 2012 is 2,381. is situated 2½ km north of Yaren District.

Village
Photo: Vladimir Lysenko (I.), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Anibare is a district in the island nation of , a part of the Anabar constituency. It is Nauru's largest district in area, and the smallest in population. is situated 4 km northeast of Yaren District.

Yaren District

Latitude
-0.54711° or 0° 32′ 50″ south
Longitude
166.91635° or 166° 54′ 59″ east
Population
747
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
INU
United Nations Location Code
NR YRN
Open location code
6VF8FW38+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313728509
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7626461
Wiki­data ID
Q31026
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Yaren District” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Yaren”
  • Afrikaans: “Yaren”
  • Amharic: “ያሬን”
  • Arabic: “ضاحية يارين”
  • Armenian: “Յարեն”
  • Asturian: “Yaren”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaren”
  • Balinese: “Distrik Yarén”
  • Basque: “Yaren”
  • Belarusian: “Ярэн”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ারেন জেলা”
  • Bosnian: “Yaren”
  • Bulgarian: “Ярен”
  • Catalan: “Yaren”
  • Cebuano: “Yaren”
  • Chinese: “Yaren”
  • Chinese: “亚伦区”
  • Chinese: “亞倫”
  • Chinese: “亞倫區”
  • Chinese: “雅連”
  • Chinese: “雅連區”
  • Church Slavic: “Ꙗрєнъ”
  • Croatian: “Yaren”
  • Czech: “Yaren”
  • Danish: “Yaren”
  • Dutch: “Yaren District”
  • Dutch: “Yaren”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ضاحية يارين”
  • Esperanto: “Jareno”
  • Esperanto: “Yaren”
  • Estonian: “Yaren”
  • Estonian: “Yareni ringkond”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yaren”
  • Finnish: “Yaren”
  • French: “District de Yaren”
  • French: “Jarren”
  • French: “Makwa”
  • French: “Moqua”
  • French: “Yaren”
  • Galician: “Yaren”
  • Georgian: “იარენი”
  • German: “Makwa”
  • German: “Moqua”
  • German: “Yaren District”
  • German: “Yaren”
  • Greek: “Γιαρέν”
  • Gujarati: “યેરેન જિલ્લો”
  • Haitian: “Yarèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yaren”
  • Hebrew: “יארן”
  • Hebrew: “ירן”
  • Hindi: “यारेन जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Yaren”
  • Icelandic: “Jaren”
  • Ido: “Yaren”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Yaren”
  • Indonesian: “Makwa”
  • Indonesian: “Yaren District”
  • Indonesian: “Yaren”
  • Irish: “Ceantar Yaren”
  • Italian: “Yaren”
  • Japanese: “メクワ”
  • Japanese: “ヤレン”
  • Japanese: “ヤレン地区”
  • Javanese: “Yaren”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾರೆನ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Ярен”
  • Kirghiz: “Ярен”
  • Komering: “Yaren”
  • Korean: “야렌 구”
  • Korean: “야렌 구역”
  • Korean: “야렌”
  • Korean: “야렌구”
  • Kotava: “Yaren”
  • Latin: “Yaren”
  • Latin: “Yarenum”
  • Latvian: “Jarena”
  • Latvian: “Jarenas rajons”
  • Ligurian: “Yaren”
  • Lithuanian: “Jarenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Yaren”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yaren”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Yaren”
  • Macedonian: “Јарен”
  • Malagasy: “Yaren”
  • Malay: “Yaren”
  • Manx: “Slyst Yaren”
  • Manx: “Yaren”
  • Marathi: “यारेन जिल्हा”
  • Marathi: “यारेन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yaren”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yaren”
  • Minangkabau: “Yaren”
  • Mingrelian: “იარენი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “يارين”
  • Nauru: “Yaren”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yaren (Distrikt)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yaren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makwa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yaren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yaren”
  • Norwegian: “Yaren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yaren”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gearen se Læppa”
  • Ossetian: “Ярен”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਰਨ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Persian: “یارن”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yaren”
  • Polish: “Yaren”
  • Portuguese: “Iarém”
  • Portuguese: “Yaren”
  • Romanian: “Yaren”
  • Russian: “Ярен”
  • Samoan: “Yaren”
  • Samogitian: “Jarens”
  • Sardinian: “Yaren”
  • Scots: “Yaren”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Yaren”
  • Serbian: “Јарен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yaren”
  • Shona: “Yaren”
  • Silesian: “Yaren”
  • Sinhala: “යරෙන් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Sinhala: “යාරෙන් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovak: “Yaren”
  • Slovenian: “Yaren”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Yaren”
  • Spanish: “Yaren”
  • Swahili: “Yaren”
  • Swedish: “Makwa”
  • Swedish: “Yaren”
  • Tagalog: “Yaren”
  • Tahitian: “Yaren”
  • Tajik: “Ярен”
  • Tamil: “யாரென் மாவட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Ярен”
  • Telugu: “యెరెన్ జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “ยาเรน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡ་རེན​་”
  • Tibetan: “ཡ་རེན​།”
  • Tibetan: “ཡ་རེན།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIaleni”
  • Turkish: “Yaren, Nauru”
  • Turkish: “Yaren”
  • Ukrainian: “Ярен”
  • Urdu: “یارن”
  • Uzbek: “Yaren”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Yaren”
  • Vietnamese: “Yaren”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yaren”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Yaren”
  • Welsh: “Yaren”
  • Western Mari: “Ярен”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚伦区”
  • Yakut: “Ярен”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞倫”
  • Zulu: “i-Yaren District”
  • “Jarens”
  • “ma tomo Jalen”
  • “Yaren”

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