!!!Nauru: Geography ||Location|Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands ||Geographic Coordinates|0 32 S, 166 55 E[{GoogleMap location='-0.53333336,166.91667' zoom='4'}] ||Area |''total: ''21 sq km\\''land: ''21 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__] ||Land boundaries|0 km ||Coastline|30 km ||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''unnamed elevation along plateau rim 61 m ||Highest Mountains| ||Terrain|sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center ||Natural Hazards|periodic droughts ||Natural Resource|phosphates, fish ||Land Use|''arable land: ''0%\\''permanent crops: ''20%\\''other: ''80% (2011) ||Climate|tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February) ||Irrigated Land|NA ||Renewable Water Resources|NA ||Environment_CurrentIssues|limited natural freshwater 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 ||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements ||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Yaren; ; ; ; \\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Arijejen; Yaren; Baiti; Anabar; Uaboe\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] ||Geography-note|world's smallest island country; situated just 53 km south of the Equator; 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