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1、Delegate 蔡卓奇ccSchool BNDS Country Republic of Nauru Capital: Aaron National by world: Gods will firstNational anthem: Nauru is my home Background: Country Republic of Nauru , Nauru for short . It s one of the Micronesia s insularities lie in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean . The nearest count
2、ry is Republic of Kiribati, 300 kilometer far from Nauru . Nauru is 21.3 square kilometer, is the smallest insularity. Well, itsalso the third smallest country in the world. Nauru has a population of about 9,200 thousands. Just more than Vatican s.The exact origins of the Nauruans are unclear since
3、their language does not resemble any other in the Pacific. Germany annexed the island in 1888. A German-British consortium began mining the islands phosphate deposits early in the 20th century. Australian forces occupied Nauru in World War I; it subsequently became a League of Nations mandate. After
4、 the Second World War - and a brutal occupation by Japan - Nauru became a UN trust territory. It achieved independence in 1968 and joined the UN in 1999 as the worlds smallest independent republic. Politic: Nauru is a parliamentary system country. The witenagemot introduce unicameral system, 18 men
5、are believed to compose. Each 3 years vote once. The president is arise from the witenagemot. Nauru hasn t got its ow n army, but under the informal agreement, Australia should answer for Nauru s national defence. Administrative divisions : Aiwo District Anabar District Anetan District Anibare Distr
6、ict Baiti District Boe District Buada District Denigomodu District Ewa District Ijuw District Meneng District Nibok District Uaboe District Yaren District Geography: Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall IslandsGeographic coordinates: 0 32 S, 166 55 E Map refere
7、nces: Oceania Area: total: 21 sq km country comparison to the world:239 land: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DCLand boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 30 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Cl
8、imate: 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 elevation along plateau rim 61 m Natural resou
9、rces: phosphates, fish Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005) Natural hazards: periodic droughts Environment - current issues: limited natural freshwater resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive ph
10、osphate 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 Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Deserti
11、fication, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping,Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreementsGeography - note: Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Mak
12、atea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of EquatorWeather and Climate:Nauru is close to the equator and ocean, so it s all-year wet and all-year hot. Nauru is tropical rainforest climate. The daytime temperatures are 26 Celsius （79 ） 35 Celsius （95 ） ;the night temperatures are 22 Celsius（72 ） 34
13、 Celsius（93 ）. Foreign relations: When Nauru autocephaly on the 1968, it entered for Commonwealth of Nations with a special leaguer, and became a formal leaguer in 2000. Nauru and Australia have good foreign relations, the people who live in Nauru use Australian currency. Economy: Revenues of this t
14、iny island traditionally have come from exports of phosphates. Few other resources exist, with most necessities being imported, mainly from Australia, its former occupier and later major source of support. In 2005 an Australian company entered into an agreement to exploit remaining supplies. Primary
15、 reserves of phosphates were exhausted and mining ceased in 2006, but mining of a deeper layer of “secondary phosphate“ in the interior of the island began the following year. The secondary phosphate deposits may last another 30 years. The rehabilitation of mined land and the replacement of income f
16、rom phosphates are serious long-term problems. In anticipation of the exhaustion of Naurus phosphate deposits, substantial amounts of phosphate income were invested in trust funds to help cushion the transition and provide for Naurus economic future. As a result of heavy spending from the trust funds, the government faced virtual bankruptcy. To cut costs the government has frozen wages and reduced overstaffed 月份1 月2月3 月4 月5 月6 月7月8 月9 月10 月11 月12 月全年极端高温C （F）34 (93) 37 (99) 35 (
