חיפוש ברשת מילון חיפוש בפורום
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חיפוש ברשת מילון חיפוש בפורום |
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| CIA World Factbook 2005 | הורד מילון בבילון 9 למחשב שלך |
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Location: |
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands |
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Geographic coordinates: |
0 32 S, 166 55 E |
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Map references: |
Oceania |
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Area: |
total: 21 sq km
land: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km |
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Area - comparative: |
about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC |
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Land boundaries: |
0 km |
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Coastline: |
30 km |
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Maritime claims: |
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
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Climate: |
tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February) |
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Terrain: |
sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
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Elevation extremes: |
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location along plateau rim 61 m |
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Natural resources: |
phosphates, fish |
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Land use: |
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2001) |
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Irrigated land: |
NA |
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Natural hazards: |
periodic droughts |
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Environment - current issues: |
limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources |
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Environment - international agreements: |
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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Geography - note: |
Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator |
More about Nauru:
| CIA World Factbook 2005 | הורד מילון בבילון 9 למחשב שלך |
|
Location: |
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands |
|
Geographic coordinates: |
0 32 S, 166 55 E |
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Map references: |
Oceania |
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Area: |
total: 21 sq km
land: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km |
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Area - comparative: |
about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC |
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Land boundaries: |
0 km |
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Coastline: |
30 km |
|
Maritime claims: |
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
|
Climate: |
tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February) |
|
Terrain: |
sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center |
|
Elevation extremes: |
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location along plateau rim 61 m |
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Natural resources: |
phosphates, fish |
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Land use: |
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2001) |
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Irrigated land: |
NA |
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Natural hazards: |
periodic droughts |
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Environment - current issues: |
limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources |
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Environment - international agreements: |
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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Geography - note: |
Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator |
More about Nauru: