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Definitions: Nauru |
NauruNoun1. An island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy. 2. A small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia west of the Gilbert Islands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NauruSynonyms: Nauru Island (n), Pleasant Island (n), Republic of Nauru (n). (additional references) |
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| National motto: God's Will First | ||||
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| Official languages | English, Nauruan | |||
| Capital | No official capital¹ | |||
| President | René Harris | |||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 192nd 21 km² Negligible | |||
| Population - Total (2002) - Density | Ranked 191st 12,329 213/km² | |||
| Independence | January 31, 1968 | |||
| Currency | Australian dollar | |||
| Time zone | UTC +12 | |||
| National anthem | Nauru Bwiema | |||
| Internet TLD | .NR | |||
| Calling Code | 674 | |||
| (1) Yaren, the largest settlement, is often given as the capital | ||||
Nauru was first settled by Polynesian and Melanesian settlers. The first European to arrive was Captain John Fearn in 1798, but Nauru continued as an independent island society until it was annexed by Germany in 1888. Mining of its extensive phosphate reserves began early in the 20th century.
Following World War I it became a British territory in 1920, though administered by Australia. In 1947, a trusteeship was approved by the United Nations, which saw Nauru continue under administration by Australia until independence in 1968. The founding president was Hammer DeRoburt. Nauru is a special member of the Commonwealth and joined the United Nations as a member state in 1999.
The 18-member Parliament is elected every three years. The Parliament elects a president from amongst its members, who appoints a Cabinet of 5-6 people. The President is both the head of state and head of government. There is a loose multiparty system; the two main parties are the Democratic Party and Nauru Party (informal).
Between 1999 and 2003, a series of no-confidence votes and elections meant Rene Harris and Bernard Dowiyogo led the country for alternating periods. Dowiyogo died in office on March 10, 2003 in Washington DC after heart surgery. Ludwig Scotty was elected President on May 29, 2003, and it was thought possible at the time that the years of political uncertainty might come to an end. But in August 2003 there was another no confidence vote. Harris regained support and was elected president again.
Nauru has 14 districts:
Nauru is a small phosphate rock island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands. The island is a raised atoll, with a surrounding reef exposed at low tide. Most of the population live on the narrow coastal belt. A central plateau, covering approximately four fifths of the land area, rises 70 metres above sea level.
There are limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but islanders are mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant
Intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and New Zealand consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources.
Revenues of Nauru have come from exports of phosphates, but reserves are now almost exhausted. Phosphate production has declined since 1989, as demand has fallen in traditional markets and as the marginal cost of extracting the remaining phosphate increases, making it less internationally competitive. While phosphates have given Nauruans one of the highest per capita incomes in the Third World, few other resources exist with most necessities being imported, including fresh water from Australia. The rehabilitation of mined land and the replacement of income from phosphates are serious long-term problems. The government has been borrowing heavily to finance fiscal deficits.
Another source of revenue was office rents from Nauru House, one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne, built on the profits from phosphates.History
Main article: History of NauruPolitics
Main article: Politics of NauruDistricts
Main article: Districts of Nauru
Geography
Main article: Geography of NauruEconomy
Main article: Economy of Nauru
| Date | English Name | Local Name | Remarks |
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| January 1 | New Year's Day | ||
| January 31 | Independence Day | Anniversary of independence in 1968 | |
| March/April | Easter | ||
| May 17 | Constitution Day | Anniversary of constitution in 1968 | |
| October 26 | Angam Day | Celebrates the several occasions when Nauru's population has reached 1500, the minimum supposed sustainable population size | |
| December 25, December 26 | Christmas |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nauru."
Crosswords: Nauru |
| English words defined with "Nauru": Australian dollar ♦ Nauru Island, Nauruan ♦ Republic of Nauru. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Nauru": nr. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nauru" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (laugh, laughter), German (Nauru (nr)). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Nauru | There is Internet service in the country provided by a company established by the Nauru Trust Board. (references) |
Nauru | Local television includes Nauru TV, which is government owned, as well as a privately owned sports network. (references) | |
Australia | Some of the ships were rerouted to the country's offshore immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island (Australia) and the countries of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tuvalu | The Chief Justice, who is also Chief Justice of Nauru, sits on the High Court approximately once a year. (references) |
Nauru | Both are presided over by the Chief Justice of Nauru as the chairman of the panel with two members for each board. (references) | |
Nauru | Appeals against decisions of the Supreme Court on miscellaneous matters go to the Appellate Court of Nauru, which is comprised of two judges. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nauru | The government-owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC) controls the mining industry. (references) |
Nauru | The Republic of Nauru, a small Pacific island with approximately 10,500 inhabitants, gained independence in 1968, at which time it adopted a modified form of parliamentary democracy. (references) | |
Nauru | The Nauru Island Council (NIC) was dissolved in 1999 by virtue of the Nauru Island Council (Dissolution) Act of 1999--that all assets and liabilities would vest in the Government of Nauru. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nauru" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nauru" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Nauru": Nauru Island ♦ Republic of Nauru. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nauru | 129 |
nauru yaren | 19 |
nauru hotel | 15 |
air nauru | 14 |
bank licence nauru | 7 |
nauru tower | 6 |
church nauru | 6 |
nauru map | 4 |
island nauru | 4 |
nauru republic | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Nauru"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 瑙鲁. (various references) | |
Danish | NR (Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru), republikken Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Dutch | NR (National Accounts, non-circularity of reference surface, Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru), Nauroe (The Republic of Nauru), Republiek Nauru (Republic of Nauru), de Republiek Nauru (The Republic of Nauru), de Republiek Nauroe (The Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Finnish | NR (Republic of Nauru), Naurun tasavalta (Republic of Nauru), Nauru (laugh, laughter, Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
French | NRU (Republic of Nauru), NR (Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru), République de Nauru (Republic of Nauru), La République de Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
German | NRU (Republic of Nauru), NR (num., number, Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Nauru (nr), Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru), Republik Nauru (Republic of Nauru), die Republik Nauru (The Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Greek | NR (Republic of Nauru), Ναουρού (Republic of Nauru), "ημοκρατία του Ναουρού (Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Italian | NRU:Yaren:dollaro australiano (Republic of Nauru), NR (non-circularity of reference surface, Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru), Repubblica di Nauru (Republic of Nauru, The Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Korean | 나우루. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aurunay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | NR (Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru), República de Nauru (Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Russian | Науру. (various references) | |
Spanish | NR (non-circularity of reference surface, Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru), República de Nauru (Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
Swedish | NR (Republic of Nauru), Nauru (Republic of Nauru), Republiken Nauru (Republic of Nauru). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Nauru" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anduro, Aruru, Auyu, Ayuru, Bauru, Nairus, Nalrwu, Nanura, Naquarah, Narew, naru, Nasri, Nauroz, Nawroz, Ndutu, Neeraum, Neikrug, Ngumu, Njau, Nkulu, Nobuku, Noburo, Nokuru, Nourry, Nuoro, Nuu, Oamuru, Waruru. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-r-u-u" | |
-1 letter: unau. | |
-2 letters: ran, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: an, ar, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: auburn. | |
+2 letters: anurous, auburns, bunraku, lunular, neurula, undular, unguard, ungular, uranium, uranous. | |
+3 letters: alburnum, auguring, bunrakus, furfuran, laburnum, neurulae, neurulas, nummular, nurtural, pursuant, runabout, sublunar, suburban, unargued, unartful, unguards, uraniums. | |
+4 letters: alburnums, anthurium, avuncular, duralumin, fulgurant, funicular, furfurans, inaugural, junctural, laburnums, luxuriant, manubrium, nurturant, pursuance, ranunculi, runabouts, runaround, sublunary, suburbans, susurrant, turnabout, unguarded, unnatural, unpopular. | |
+5 letters: anthuriums, argumentum, duralumins, fraudulent, funiculars, hausfrauen, inaugurals, inaugurate, jaguarundi, juggernaut, languorous, luxuriance, manubriums, nasturtium, nunciature, nurturance, outarguing, peduncular, punctuator, pursuances, pursuivant, ranunculus, roundabout, runarounds, subnuclear, superhuman, superlunar, turnabouts, turnaround, ultrahuman, ultrasound, unalluring, unarguable, unarguably, unburnable, undervalue, undulatory, ungraceful, ungracious, ungrateful, unguarding, unilocular, unmeasured, unsaturate, usurpation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 75 72 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- ..- .-. ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110101 01110010 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a u r u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0075 0072 0075 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4867878487 |
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