South Tarawa's inhabited ribbon sits between lagoon and ocean. Wikimedia records the original Government of Kiribati photograph as dated 31 October 2005.Government of Kiribati, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unportedanalysis
Kiribati looks tiny. Every fact makes it bigger
It is pronounced Kiribas. Its 136,488 people control an ocean territory roughly 4,000 times larger than their land. Then come the missing Saturday, a Fiji-based parliament seat, hydrogen bombs and tuna revenue.
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