| Terrain Nauru :
| sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
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| Natural hazards Nauru :
| periodic droughts
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| Environment current issues Nauru :
| 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 Nauru :
| Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
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| Geography note Nauru :
| 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
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| Flag description Nauru :
| blue with a narrow, horizontal, yellow stripe across the center and a large white 12-pointed star below the stripe on the hoist side; the star indicates the country's location in relation to the Equator (the yellow stripe) and the 12 points symbolize the 12 original tribes of Nauru
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| Agriculture products Nauru :
| coconuts
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| Industries Nauru :
| phosphate mining, offshore banking, coconut products
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