Kiribati

Kiribati is a remote archipelago nation in , at the equator. It consists of 33 atolls widely dispersed through 3.5 million km² of sea territory.
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Kiribati

  • Type: Country with 120,000 residents
  • Description: island sovereign state in the central Pacific Ocean
  • Also known as: “Cộng hoà Kiribati”, “Cộng hòa Kiribati”, “Gilbert Islands”, “Îles Gilbert”, “ki”, “KI”, “KIR”, “Kiribaat tääʹssväʹldd”, “Kiribačio Respublika”, “Kiribasi”, “Kiribati dásseváldi”, “Kiribati Köztársaság”, “Kiribati täsiväldi”, “Kiribati Vabariik”, “Kiribatin tasavalta”, “Kiribatská republika”, “la république des Kiribati”, “Poblacht Chiribeas”, “Repubblica delle Kiribati”, “Repubblika ta’ Kiribati”, “Republic of Kiribati”, “República de Kiribati”, “Republiek Kiribati”, “Republik Kiribati”, “Republika Kiribati”, “Republiken Kiribati”, “Republikken Kiribati”, “république des Kiribati”, “Respubliko Kiribato”, “Кирибатӣ”, “Кирибати республика”, “Кирибати Республикасы”, “Кирибатини республикасы”, “Република Кирибати”, “Республика Кирибати”, “კირიბატიშ რესპუბლიკა”, and “কিরিবতি”
  • Languages: English and Gilbertese
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
1.4658° or 1° 27′ 57″ north
Longitude of center
173.0381° or 173° 2′ 17″ east
Population
120,000
Area
811 km² (313 miles²)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Phone code
686
Internet domain
.ki
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425015
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
4030945
Wiki­data ID
Q710
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Kiribati” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Кирибати”
  • Achinese: “Kiribati”
  • Afrikaans: “Kiribati”
  • Akan: “Kiribati”
  • Albanian: “Kiribati”
  • Albanian: “Qiribati”
  • Amharic: “ኪሪባስ”
  • Amharic: “ኪሪባቲ”
  • Amis: “Kiribati”
  • Angika: “कीरीबाती”
  • Arabic: “كيريباتي”
  • Arabic: “كيريباس”
  • Aragonese: “Kiribati”
  • Armenian: “Կիրիբատի”
  • Arpitan: “Kiribati”
  • Assamese: “কিৰিবাটি”
  • Asturian: “Kiribati”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiribati”
  • Balinese: “Kiribati”
  • Bambara: “Kiribati”
  • Banjar: “Kiribati”
  • Bashkir: “Кирибати”
  • Basque: “Kiribati”
  • Belarusian: “Кірыбаці”
  • Bengali: “কিরিবাতি”
  • Bengali: “কিরিবাস”
  • Betawi: “Kiribati”
  • Bhojpuri: “किरिबाती”
  • Bishnupriya: “কিরিবাতি”
  • Bislama: “Kiribati”
  • Bosnian: “Kiribati”
  • Breton: “Kiribati”
  • Bulgarian: “Кирибати”
  • Burmese: “ကီရီဘတ်စ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ခီရီဘာတီ”
  • Catalan: “Kiribati”
  • Cebuano: “Kiribati”
  • Central Bikol: “Kiribati”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیریباس”
  • Chavacano: “Kiribati”
  • Chechen: “Кирибати”
  • Cherokee: “ᎧᎵᏆᏘ”
  • Cheyenne: “Kiribati”
  • Chinese: “吉里巴斯”
  • Chinese: “基里巴斯 / 吉里巴斯”
  • Chinese: “基里巴斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Кирибати”
  • Chuvash: “Кирибати”
  • Cornish: “Kiribati”
  • Corsican: “Kiribati”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kiribati”
  • Croatian: “Kiribati”
  • Czech: “Karibati”
  • Czech: “Kiribati”
  • Dagbani: “Kiribati”
  • Danish: “Kiribati”
  • Dhivehi: “ކިރިބަތީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kiribati”
  • Dotyali: “किरिवाटी”
  • Dutch: “Kiribati”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀི་རི་བ་ཏི་མཚོ་གླིང”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀི་རི་བྷ་ཊི། (Kiribati)”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀི་རི་བྷ་ཊི།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кирибати”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيريباتى”
  • Esperanto: “Kiribato”
  • Estonian: “Kiribati”
  • Ewe: “Kiribati nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Quiribati”
  • Faroese: “Kiribati”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kiribati”
  • Finnish: “Kiribati”
  • French: “Kiribati”
  • Fulah: “Kiribaati”
  • Fulah: “Kiribari”
  • Gagauz: “Kiribati”
  • Galician: “Kiribati”
  • Galician: “Quiribati”
  • Ganda: “Kiribati”
  • Georgian: “კირიბატი”
  • German: “Kiribati”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kiribati”
  • Gilaki: “کيريباس”
  • Goan Konkani: “Kiribati”
  • Goan Konkani: “किरिबाटी”
  • Goan Konkani: “किरिबास”
  • Greek: “Κιριμπάτι”
  • Guarani: “Kiriváti”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kiribati”
  • Gujarati: “કિરિબાટી”
  • Gujarati: “કિરીબાટી”
  • Haitian: “Kiribès”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kiribati”
  • Hausa: “Kiribati”
  • Hawaiian: “Kilipaki”
  • Hebrew: “קיריבאטי”
  • Hebrew: “קיריבטי”
  • Hindi: “किरिबाती”
  • Hungarian: “Kiribati”
  • Icelandic: “Kíribatí”
  • Ido: “Kiribati”
  • Igbo: “Kiribati”
  • Iloko: “Kiribati”
  • Inari Sami: “Kiribati”
  • Indonesian: “Kiribati”
  • Interlingua: “Kiribati”
  • Interlingue: “Kiribati”
  • Irish: “Cireabaití”
  • Irish: “Ciribeas”
  • Italian: “Kiribati”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kiribati”
  • Japanese: “キリバス”
  • Japanese: “キリバス共和国”
  • Javanese: “Kiribati”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kiribati”
  • Kalmyk: “Кирибадин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿರಿಬಾಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿರಿಬಾತಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kiribati”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кирибати”
  • Karekare: “Kiribati”
  • Kashmiri: “کِرٕباتی”
  • Kazakh: “Кирибати”
  • Khmer: “គិរីបាទី”
  • Kikuyu: “Kiribati”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kiribati”
  • Kirghiz: “Кирибати”
  • Komering: “Kiribati”
  • Korean: “키리바시”
  • Korean: “키리바티”
  • Kotava: “Kiribatia”
  • Kurdish: “Kirîbatî”
  • Ladin: “Kiribati”
  • Ladino: “Kiribati”
  • Lao: “ກີຣິບາຕີ”
  • Lao: “ຄິຣິບາທິ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກີຣິບາຕີ”
  • Latin: “Kiribati”
  • Latvian: “Kiribati”
  • Ligurian: “Kiribati”
  • Limburgan: “Kiribati”
  • Lingala: “Kiribati”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ciribas”
  • Literary Chinese: “吉里巴斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiribatis”
  • Livvi: “Kiribati”
  • Lombard: “Kiribati”
  • Low German: “Kiribati”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kiribati”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kiribati”
  • Lule Sami: “Kiribáhti”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiribati”
  • Macedonian: “Кирибати”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribasy”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribati”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribaty”
  • Malay: “Kiribati”
  • Malayalam: “കിരിബാട്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “കിരീബാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Kiribati”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯤꯔꯤꯕꯇꯤ”
  • Manx: “Yn Chiribati”
  • Maori: “Kiripāti”
  • Marathi: “किरिबाटी”
  • Marathi: “किरीबाटी”
  • Mazanderani: “کیریباتی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kiribati”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiribati”
  • Minangkabau: “Kiribati”
  • Mingrelian: “კირიბატი”
  • Mongolian: “Кирибати”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيريباتي”
  • Nauru: “Kiribat”
  • Navajo: “Awoołání Biditłishii Bikédaayah”
  • Nepali: “किरिबाटी”
  • Newari: “किरिबाती”
  • North Ndebele: “Khiribati”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiribaati”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian: “Kiribati”
  • Novial: “Kiribati”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kiribati”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kiribati”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kiribas”
  • Oriya: “କିରିବାଟି”
  • Oriya: “କିରିବାତି”
  • Oriya: “କିରିବାସ”
  • Ossetian: “Кирибати”
  • Pali: “किरिबाटी”
  • Pampanga: “Kiribati”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਰਬਾਤੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਰੀਬਾਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Kiribati”
  • Persian: “کریباتی”
  • Persian: “کیریباتی”
  • Piemontese: “Kiribati”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kiribaati”
  • Polish: “Kiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Kiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Quiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Quiribáti”
  • Pushto: “کيريباتي”
  • Pushto: “کیري باتي”
  • Pushto: “کیریباتي”
  • Pushto: “کېريباتي”
  • Quechua: “Kiribati”
  • Quechua: “Kiripati”
  • Rakhine: “ကီရီဘတ်စ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Kiribati”
  • Romansh: “Kiribati”
  • Rundi: “Kiribati”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кирибати”
  • Russian: “Кирибати”
  • Rusyn: “Кірібаті”
  • Samoan: “Kilibati”
  • Samoan: “Kiripati”
  • Samogitian: “Kėrėbatis”
  • Sango: “Kiribati”
  • Sanskrit: “किरिबाटी”
  • Sardinian: “Kiribati”
  • Scots: “Kiribati”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ciribeas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kiribati”
  • Serbian: “Kiribati”
  • Serbian: “Кирибати”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiribati”
  • Shan: “ၵီႇရီႇပတ်ႉသ်”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵိရိပတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Kiribati”
  • Sicilian: “Kiribati”
  • Silesian: “Kiribati”
  • Sindhi: “ڪرباتي”
  • Sindhi: “ڪريبتي”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබටි”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබති”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබාටි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kiribaat”
  • Slovak: “Kiribati”
  • Slovenian: “Kiribati”
  • Somali: “Kiribati”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیریباتی”
  • Spanish: “Kiribati”
  • Sundanese: “Kiribati”
  • Swahili: “Kiribati”
  • Swedish: “Kiribati”
  • Swiss German: “Kiribati”
  • Tagalog: “Kiribati”
  • Tahitian: “Tiribati”
  • Tajik: “Кирибати”
  • Tajik: “Кириботӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Кирибатӣ”
  • Tamil: “கிரிபட்டி”
  • Tamil: “கிரிபாட்டி”
  • Tamil: “கிரிபாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Кирибати”
  • Telugu: “కిరిబాటి”
  • Telugu: “కిరిబాతి”
  • Thai: “คิริบาส”
  • Thai: “ประเทศคิริบาส”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐคิริบาส”
  • Tibetan: “ཀི་རི་བ་ཏི།”
  • Tibetan: “ཀི་རི་བཱ་ཏི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኪሪባቲ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kiribas”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kilipasi”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كيريباتي”
  • Turkish: “Kiribati”
  • Turkmen: “Kiribati”
  • Udmurt: “Кирибати”
  • Uighur: “كىرىباتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кірибаті”
  • Ukrainian: “Кірібаті”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kiribati”
  • Urdu: “کریباتی”
  • Urdu: “کیریباتی”
  • Uzbek: “Kiribati”
  • Venetian: “Kiribati”
  • Veps: “Kiribati”
  • Vietnamese: “Ki-ri-ba-ti”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiribati”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kiribati”
  • Volapük: “Kiribatuäns”
  • Võro: “Kiribati”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kiribati”
  • Welsh: “Ciribas”
  • Welsh: “Ciribati”
  • Welsh: “Kiribati”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիրիպասի Հանրապետութիւն”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիրիպասի”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiribati”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiribaty”
  • Western Mari: “Кирибати”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیریباتی”
  • Wolof: “Kiribati”
  • Wu Chinese: “基里巴斯”
  • Yakut: “Кирибати”
  • Yiddish: “קיריבאַטי”
  • Yoruba: “Kiribati”
  • Yoruba: “Kìrìbátì”
  • Yue Chinese: “基里巴斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Kiribati”
  • Zhuang: “Kiribati”
  • Zulu: “i-Kiribati”
  • “ma Kilipa”
  • “Quiribati”
  • “किरिबाती”

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