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The United Nations projects the population will stay around 10,000 in the 2020s, [5] and the Nauru Bureau of Statistics estimates the population will increase to 20,000 in 2038. [6] In Nauru's history, there have been six major demographics changes. The island was first inhabited by Micronesian people roughly 3,000 years ago. [7]
Map of Nauru Nauru is a 21 km 2 (8.1 sq mi), [ 4 ] oval-shaped island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 55.95 km (34.77 mi) south of the Equator . [ 72 ] The island is surrounded by a fringing coral reef , which is exposed at low tide and dotted with pinnacles . [ 5 ]
An enlargeable basic map of Nauru. ... Population of Nauru]l: 10,000 - 214th most populous country; Area of Nauru: ... History of Nauru.
History of Nauru, is about Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean. Human activity is thought to have begun roughly 3,000 years ago when clans settled the island. A people and culture developed on the island, the Nauru which had 12 tribes. At the end of the 1700s, a British ship came, and this was the first known contact with the outside ...
A map of Nauru showing districts, and the current main villages Nauru's location. The Republic of Nauru originally consisted of 169 villages; by 1900 these were already partly abandoned, uninhabited or destroyed. With the increasing population growth the single villages merged into a single connected settlement, which today is spread out around ...
Map of Nauru Tree map of Nauru. The economy of Nauru is tiny, based on a population in 2019 of only 11,550 people. [12] The economy has historically been based on phosphate mining. With primary phosphate reserves exhausted by the end of the 2010s, Nauru has sought to diversify its sources of income.
1940 map of Nauru showing the extent of the phosphate mined lands. Mining operations on Nauru began in 1906, at which time it was part of the German colonial empire. The island had some of the world's largest and highest quality deposits of phosphate, a key component in fertiliser, making it a strategically important resource on which agriculture in Australia and New Zealand depended.
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