Nauru is a tiny island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania.

Quick Scoop: Where is Nauru?

  • It sits just south of the Equator at about 0°32′S, 166°55′E.
  • Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island (Kiribati), roughly 300 km to the east.
  • It lies about 3,000–4,000 km northeast of Australia and around 1,300 km northeast of the Solomon Islands.
  • Nauru is a single coral island, about 21 km² in area, surrounded entirely by the Pacific Ocean with no land borders.

So if you imagine a vast stretch of blue Pacific, Nauru is a small oval speck of land almost on the Equator, far from any major continent but grouped with other Micronesian islands in Oceania.

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