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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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The , Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands are a chain of 11 atolls and coral in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the .

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is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, and the location of the capital of Kiribati. It is home to about 70,000 people, more than half of the country's population!

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, also known as Christmas Island has the largest land area of any coral atoll in the world and by itself represents the majority of the land area of Kiribati.

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The are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between and . They constitute the main part of the country of Kiribati.

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The , or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the and west of the in the central Pacific Ocean, north of .

Kiribati

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
.ki
Internet domain
686
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”
  • Asturian: “República de Kiribati”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiribati”
  • Balinese: “Kiribati”
  • Bambara: “Kiribati”
  • Banjar: “Kiribati”
  • Bashkir: “Кирибати”
  • Basque: “Kiribati”
  • Belarusian: “Кірыбаці”
  • Bengali: “কিরিবতি”
  • Bengali: “কিরিবাতি”
  • Bengali: “কিরিবাস”
  • Betawi: “Kiribati”
  • Bhojpuri: “किरिबाती”
  • Bishnupriya: “কিরিবাতি”
  • Bislama: “Kiribati”
  • Bosnian: “Kiribati”
  • Breton: “Kiribati”
  • Bulgarian: “Кирибати”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Кирибати”
  • Burmese: “ကီရီဘတ်စ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ခီရီဘာတီ”
  • Catalan: “Kiribati”
  • Catalan: “República de Kiribati”
  • Cebuano: “Kiribati”
  • Central Bikol: “Kiribati”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیریباس”
  • Chavacano: “Kiribati”
  • Chechen: “Кирибати”
  • Cherokee: “ᎧᎵᏆᏘ”
  • Cheyenne: “Kiribati”
  • Chinese: “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: “KI”
  • Dutch: “KIR”
  • Dutch: “Kiribati”
  • Dutch: “Republiek 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: “KI”
  • Esperanto: “Kiribato”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kiribato”
  • Estonian: “Kiribati Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Kiribati”
  • Ewe: “Kiribati nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Quiribati”
  • Faroese: “Kiribati”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kiribati”
  • Finnish: “Kiribati”
  • Finnish: “Kiribatin tasavalta”
  • French: “Îles Gilbert”
  • French: “ki”
  • French: “Kiribati”
  • French: “la république des Kiribati”
  • French: “république des 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”
  • 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 Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Kiribati”
  • Icelandic: “Kíribatí”
  • Ido: “Kiribati”
  • Igbo: “Kiribati”
  • Iloko: “Kiribati”
  • Inari Sami: “Kiribati täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kiribati”
  • Indonesian: “Kiribati”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Kiribati”
  • Interlingua: “Kiribati”
  • Interlingue: “Kiribati”
  • Irish: “Cireabaití”
  • Irish: “Ciribeas”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Chiribeas”
  • Italian: “Kiribati”
  • Italian: “Repubblica delle 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 республика”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кирибати”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кирибатини республикасы”
  • Kashmiri: “کِرٕباتی”
  • Kazakh: “Кирибати Республикасы”
  • 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”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiribati”
  • Macedonian: “Кирибати”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribasy”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribati”
  • Malagasy: “Kiribaty”
  • Malay: “Kiribati”
  • Malayalam: “കിരിബാട്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “കിരീബാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Kiribati”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika ta’ 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”
  • Mingrelian: “კირიბატიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mongolian: “Кирибати”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيريباتي”
  • Nauru: “Kiribat”
  • Navajo: “Awoołání Biditłishii Bikédaayah”
  • Nepali: “किरिबाटी”
  • Newari: “किरिबाती”
  • North Ndebele: “Khiribati”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiribaati”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiribati dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Kiribati”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiribati”
  • Norwegian: “Kiribati”
  • Novial: “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”
  • Polish: “Republika Kiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Kiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Quiribati”
  • Portuguese: “Quiribáti”
  • Pushto: “کيريباتي”
  • Pushto: “کیري باتي”
  • Pushto: “کیریباتي”
  • Pushto: “کېريباتي”
  • Quechua: “Kiribati”
  • Quechua: “Kiripati”
  • Romanian: “Kiribati”
  • Romansh: “Kiribati”
  • Rundi: “Kiribati”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кирибати”
  • Russian: “Кирибати”
  • Russian: “Республика 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: “မိူင်းၵိရိပတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Kiribati”
  • Sicilian: “Kiribati”
  • Silesian: “Kiribati”
  • Sindhi: “ڪرباتي”
  • Sindhi: “ڪريبتي”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබටි”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබති”
  • Sinhala: “කිරිබාටි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kiribaat tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kiribaat”
  • Slovak: “Kiribati”
  • Slovak: “Kiribatská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Kiribati”
  • Somali: “Kiribati”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیریباتی”
  • Spanish: “Kiribati”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Kiribati”
  • Spanish: “República de Kiribati”
  • Sundanese: “Kiribati”
  • Swahili: “Kiribati”
  • Swedish: “Kiribati”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Kiribati”
  • Swiss German: “Kiribati”
  • Tagalog: “Kiribati”
  • Tahitian: “Tiribati”
  • Tajik: “Кирибати”
  • Tajik: “Кирибатӣ”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kiribati”
  • 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: “Cộng hoà Kiribati”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa 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 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”
  • “Kėrėbatis”
  • “KI”
  • “KIR”
  • “Kiribati”
  • “ma Kilipasi”
  • “Quiribati”
  • “किरिबाती”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kiribati”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.