Nauru is a tiny island nation in the central Pacific, just south of the equator, covering only about 8 square miles (21 km²), which makes it the third-smallest country on Earth. It is a single raised coral island, ringed by a narrow coastal strip of palm trees and beaches and a reef that drops away into deep ocean.
Its most striking landscape is Topside, the island's central plateau, where a century of phosphate mining has left a strange field of jagged coral pinnacles across most of the land. Below it, Buada Lagoon is a calm, palm-fringed inland lake, and the highest point, Command Ridge, reaches only about 233 feet (71 m).
The Nauru reed warbler, the island's only native land bird found nowhere else, sings from the bushes, and frigatebirds and noddies nest along the cliffs. Islanders have a long tradition of catching and taming frigatebirds, and dolphins and sea turtles swim in the waters just off the reef.
Did You Know? Nauru has no official capital city, though most government offices are in the district of Yaren.
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