Nauru

Nauru, officially the Republic of Naoero, is a small island in the south of the . It is the world's smallest independent republic and third-smallest country by area; only and the Vatican City are smaller.
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  • Type: Country with 10,200 residents
  • Description: country in Oceania
  • Also known as: “Cộng hoà Nauru”, “Cộng hòa Nauru”, “Gwladwriaeth Nawrw”, “Ilha Aprazível”, “la République de Nauru”, “ma Nalo”, “Naoero”, “Naoero täsiväldi”, “Naurú”, “Nauru dásseváldi”, “Nauru tääʹssväʹldd”, “Nauru Vabariik”, “Naurui Köztársaság”, “Naurun tasavalta”, “Naurun Tazovaldkund”, “Nauruská republika”, “Pleasant Island”, “Poblachd Naoero”, “Poblacht Naoero”, “Repubblika ta’ Nauru”, “Republic of Naoero”, “República de Naoero”, “República de Nauru”, “República de Naurú”, “Republiek Naoëro”, “Republiek Nauru”, “Republik Naoero”, “Republik Nauru”, “Republika Naoero”, “Republika Nauru”, “Republiken Nauru”, “Republikken Naoero”, “Republikken Nauru”, “Respubliko Nauro”, “Trust Territory of Nauru”, “Наоэро”, “Науэро”, “Республика Наоэро”, “Республика Науру”, “ნაურუშ რესპუბლიკა”, “სასიამნო კოკი”, “নাউৰু গণতন্ত্ৰ”, “নাউৰু গণৰাজ্য”, “ನವುರು”, “ナウル共和国”, and “瑙魯共和國”
  • Historically known as: “Republic of Nauru”
  • Languages: Nauru and English

Nauru

Latitude of center
-0.5328° or 0° 31′ 58″ south
Longitude of center
166.9318° or 166° 55′ 55″ east
Population
10,200
Area
21 km² (8.1 miles²)
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
Capital
Yaren
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Phone code
674
Internet domain
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Nauru” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Науру”
  • Achinese: “Nauru”
  • Afrikaans: “Naoeroe”
  • Afrikaans: “Nauru”
  • Akan: “Naworu”
  • Albanian: “Nauru”
  • Albanian: “Naurua”
  • Amharic: “ናኡሩ”
  • Amharic: “ናውሩ”
  • Amis: “Nauru”
  • Angika: “नैरू”
  • Arabic: “ناورو”
  • Arabic: “نورو”
  • Aragonese: “Nauru”
  • Armenian: “Նաուրու”
  • Arpitan: “Naouru”
  • Assamese: “নাউৰু”
  • Asturian: “Nauru”
  • Atayal: “Nauru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nauru”
  • Balinese: “Nauru”
  • Bambara: “Nawuru”
  • Banjar: “Nauru”
  • Bashkir: “Науру”
  • Basque: “Nauru”
  • Bavarian: “Nauru”
  • Belarusian: “Науру”
  • Belarusian: “Наўру”
  • Bengali: “নাউরু”
  • Betawi: “Nauru”
  • Bishnupriya: “নাউরু”
  • Bislama: “Nauru”
  • Bosnian: “Nauru”
  • Breton: “Nauru”
  • Bulgarian: “Науру”
  • Burmese: “နအူရူးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “နော်ရူး”
  • Catalan: “Nauru”
  • Cebuano: “Nauru”
  • Central Bikol: “Nauru”
  • Central Kurdish: “نائووروو”
  • Chavacano: “Nauru”
  • Chechen: “Науру”
  • Cherokee: “ᏃᎤᎷ”
  • Cheyenne: “Nauru”
  • Chinese: “瑙魯”
  • Chinese: “瑙鲁”
  • Chinese: “諾埃羅”
  • Chinese: “諾魯”
  • Choctaw: “Naulu”
  • Church Slavic: “Наоуроу”
  • Cornish: “Nauru”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nauru”
  • Croatian: “Nauru”
  • Czech: “Nauru”
  • Dagbani: “Nauru”
  • Danish: “Nauru”
  • Dhivehi: “ނައުރޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nauru”
  • Dotyali: “नाउरु”
  • Dutch: “Naoëro”
  • Dutch: “Nauru”
  • Dzongkha: “ནའུ་རུ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ནཱཝ་རུ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Науру”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناورو”
  • Esperanto: “Nauro”
  • Estonian: “Nauru”
  • Ewe: “Nauru nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Nauru”
  • Faroese: “Nauru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nauru”
  • Finnish: “Nauru”
  • French: “Nauru”
  • Friulian: “Nauru”
  • Fulah: “Nawru”
  • Fulah: “Nawuru”
  • Gagauz: “Nauru”
  • Galician: “Nauru”
  • Ganda: “Nawuru”
  • Georgian: “ნაურუ”
  • German: “Naoero”
  • German: “Nauru”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nauru”
  • Gilaki: “نائۊرۊ”
  • Goan Konkani: “Nauru”
  • Goan Konkani: “नाउरु”
  • Goan Konkani: “नौरु”
  • Gorontalo: “Nauru”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌿”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍉”
  • Greek: “Ναοερό”
  • Greek: “Ναουρού”
  • Greek: “Ναούρου”
  • Guarani: “Náuru”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Nauru”
  • Gujarati: “નૌરુ”
  • Haitian: “Naorou”
  • Haitian: “Nayouwou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nauru”
  • Hausa: “Nauru”
  • Hebrew: “נאוארו”
  • Hebrew: “נאורו”
  • Hindi: “नाउरु”
  • Hindi: “नौरु”
  • Hungarian: “Nauru”
  • Icelandic: “Nárú”
  • Icelandic: “Naúrú”
  • Ido: “Nauru”
  • Igbo: “Nauru”
  • Iloko: “Nauru”
  • Inari Sami: “Naoero”
  • Indonesian: “Nauru”
  • Interlingua: “Nauru”
  • Interlingue: “Nauru”
  • Irish: “Naoero”
  • Irish: “Nárú”
  • Italian: “Nauru”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nauru”
  • Japanese: “ナウル”
  • Javanese: “Nauru”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nauru”
  • Kalmyk: “Наурмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ನೌರು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nauru”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Науру”
  • Karekare: “Nauru”
  • Kashmiri: “Nauru”
  • Kashmiri: “نارووٗ”
  • Kazakh: “Науру”
  • Khmer: “ណូរូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Nauru”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nawuru”
  • Kirghiz: “Науру”
  • Komering: “Nauru”
  • Korean: “나오에로”
  • Korean: “나우루”
  • Kotava: “Naurua”
  • Kurdish: “Naûrû”
  • Kurdish: “نائوروو”
  • Ladin: “Nauru”
  • Ladino: “Nauru”
  • Lao: “ນາອູຣູ”
  • Latin: “Nauru”
  • Latin: “Naurum”
  • Latvian: “Nauru”
  • Lezghian: “Науру”
  • Ligurian: “Nauru”
  • Limburgan: “Naoeroe”
  • Limburgan: “Nauru”
  • Lingala: “Nauru”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nauero”
  • Literary Chinese: “諾魯”
  • Lithuanian: “Nauru Respublika”
  • Lithuanian: “Nauru”
  • Livvi: “Nauru”
  • Lombard: “Nauru”
  • Low German: “Nauro”
  • Low German: “Nauru”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nauru”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Nauru”
  • Luxembourgish: “Naoero”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nauru”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nauru”
  • Macedonian: “Наоеро”
  • Macedonian: “Науру”
  • Malagasy: “Naoro”
  • Malagasy: “Naorò”
  • Malay: “Nauru”
  • Malayalam: “നൗറു”
  • Malayalam: “നൗറൂ”
  • Maltese: “Nauru”
  • Maltese: “Nawru”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯥꯎꯔꯨ”
  • Manx: “Naaroo”
  • Maori: “Nauru”
  • Marathi: “नाउरू”
  • Marathi: “नौरू”
  • Mazanderani: “نائورو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nauru”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nauru”
  • Minangkabau: “Nauru”
  • Mingrelian: “ნაურუ”
  • Mirandese: “Ñaouru”
  • Mongolian: “Науру”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ناورو”
  • Nauru: “Naoero”
  • Nepali: “नाउरू”
  • Newari: “नाउरु”
  • North Ndebele: “Nauru”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nauru”
  • Northern Sami: “Nauru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Naoero”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nauru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Naoero”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nauru”
  • Norwegian: “Naoero”
  • Norwegian: “Nauru”
  • Novial: “Nauru”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Nauru”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Naoero”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nauru”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nauru”
  • Oriya: “ନାଉରୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Науру”
  • Pali: “नौरु”
  • Pampanga: “Nauru”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਉਰੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Nauru”
  • Persian: “نائورو”
  • Piemontese: “Nauru”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nauruu”
  • Polish: “Naoero”
  • Polish: “Nauru”
  • Portuguese: “Naoero”
  • Portuguese: “Nauru”
  • Pushto: “ناورو”
  • Pushto: “نايورو”
  • Pushto: “نایرو”
  • Quechua: “Nauru”
  • Quechua: “Nawru”
  • Romanian: “Nauru”
  • Romansh: “Nauru”
  • Rundi: “Nawuru”
  • Russia Buriat: “Науру”
  • Russian: “Науру”
  • Sakizaya: “Nauru”
  • Samoan: “Nauru”
  • Samogitian: “Nauru”
  • Sango: “Nauru”
  • Sanskrit: “नौरु”
  • Sardinian: “Nauru”
  • Scots: “Nauru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nabhru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Naoero”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nauru”
  • Serbian: “Науру”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Naoero”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nauru”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၼၢဝ်ရူး”
  • Shona: “Nauru”
  • Sicilian: “Nauru”
  • Silesian: “Nauru”
  • Sindhi: “نائورو”
  • Sinhala: “නාඌරූ”
  • Sinhala: “නාවුරු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nauru”
  • Slovak: “Nauru”
  • Slovenian: “Nauru”
  • Somali: “Nauru”
  • Somali: “Nawru”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نائورو”
  • Spanish: “Nauru”
  • Sundanese: “Nauru”
  • Swahili: “Nauru”
  • Swedish: “Nauru”
  • Swiss German: “Naoero”
  • Swiss German: “Nauru”
  • Tagalog: “Nauru”
  • Tahitian: “Nauru”
  • Tajik: “Науру”
  • Tamil: “நவூரு”
  • Tamil: “நௌரு”
  • Taroko: “Nworu”
  • Tatar: “Науру”
  • Telugu: “నవూరు”
  • Telugu: “నౌరు”
  • Thai: “นาอูรู”
  • Thai: “ประเทศนาอูรู”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐนาอูรู”
  • Tibetan: “ནའུ་རུ།”
  • Tibetan: “ནཽ་རུ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ናኡሩ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Nauru”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Naulu”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ناورو”
  • Turkish: “Nauru Adası”
  • Turkish: “Nauru”
  • Turkmen: “Nauru”
  • Twi: “Nauru”
  • Udmurt: “Науру”
  • Uighur: “ناۋرۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Наоеро”
  • Ukrainian: “Науру”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nauru”
  • Urdu: “نؤرو”
  • Urdu: “ناورو”
  • Uzbek: “Nauru”
  • Venetian: “Nauru”
  • Veps: “Nauru”
  • Vietnamese: “Nauru”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nauru”
  • Volapük: “Naureän”
  • Võro: “Nauru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nauru”
  • Welsh: “Nauru”
  • Welsh: “Nawrw”
  • Western Frisian: “Nauru”
  • Western Frisian: “Naurû”
  • Western Mari: “Науру”
  • Western Panjabi: “ناورو”
  • Wolof: “Nauru”
  • Wolof: “Nawru”
  • Wu Chinese: “瑙鲁”
  • Xhosa: “Nawuru”
  • Yakut: “Науру”
  • Yiddish: “נאורו”
  • Yoruba: “Nauru”
  • Yoruba: “Nàúrù”
  • Yue Chinese: “瑙魯”
  • Zeeuws: “Naoero”
  • Zeeuws: “Nauru”
  • Zhuang: “Nauru”
  • Zulu: “i-Nauru”
  • “ma Najowelo”
  • “Nauru”

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