Districts of Nauru

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Updates: 

I've added 2011 census data from source [3]. Source [3] includes something called "Location" in all of its lists of districts. No map shows a district called "Location." Source [3], p. 1, says"The Nauru Phosphate Corporation‘s main office is based in the district of Aiwo, which explains the Location settlement being located in Denigomodu, the neighbouring district of Aiwo." I conclude that "Location" is a populated place, not an administrative division, and lies within Denigomodu district, so I combined the populations on those two lines.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, has new ISO district codes for Nauru. They are shown in the table below. They replace codes from a draft version, ISO/DIS 2166-2, which had not been supported.

Country overview: 

Short nameNAURU
ISO codeNR
FIPS codeNR
LanguageNauru (na),English (en)
Time zone+12
CapitalYaren

 

Initially a German possession, Nauru was occupied by Australia in 1914-11. The League of Nations mandated it to the British Empire on 1920-12-17. Nauru was occupied by Japan during World War II. The United Nations extended the League of Nations mandate as a trusteeship of Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom on 1947-11-01. Nauru became independent in 1968.

Other names of country: 

  1. Danish: Republikken Nauru (formal)
  2. Dutch: Nauru
  3. English: Republic of Nauru (formal)
  4. Finnish: Nauru
  5. French: Nauru f
  6. German: Nauru n
  7. Icelandic: Nárú
  8. Italian: Nauru
  9. Nauru: Naoero (formal)
  10. Norwegian: Nauru, Republikken Nauru (formal)
  11. Portuguese: Nauru
  12. Russian: Республика Науру (formal)
  13. Spanish: Nauru, República f de Nauru (formal)
  14. Swedish: Nauru
  15. Turkish: Nauru Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Primary subdivisions: 

Nauru is divided into fourteen districts.

DistrictHASCISOFIPSPopulationArea(km.²)Area(mi.²)
AiwoNR.AI01NR011,2201.10.4
AnabarNR.AB02NR024521.50.6
AnetanNR.AT03NR035871.00.4
AnibareNR.AR04NR042263.11.2
BaitiNR.BA05NR055131.20.5
BoeNR.BO06NR068510.50.2
BuadaNR.BU07NR077392.61.0
DenigomoduNR.DE08NR081,8040.90.3
EwaNR.EW09NR094461.20.5
IjuwNR.IJ10NR101781.10.4
MenengNR.ME11NR111,3803.11.2
NibokNR.NI12NR124841.60.6
UaboeNR.UA13NR133180.80.3
YarenNR.YA14NR147471.50.6
14 districts9,94521.18.2
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes.
    If periods are replaced by hyphens, these are the
    same as the district codes from ISO/DIS 3166-2.
  • ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2.
  • FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4.
  • Population: 2011-10-30 census.
  • Capitals: The districts, which average only 1.5 sq. km.,
    can be considered as the Nauruan equivalent of cities;
    thus, each district is its own capital.

Territorial extent: 

Nauru consists of just a single island.

The UN LOCODE page  for Nauru lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Other names of subdivisions: 

  1. Baiti: Baitsi (variant)
  2. Denigomodu: Denig (informal)

Population history:

District1983-05-131992-04-172002-09-232011-10-30
Aiwo8128741,0511,220
Anabar226320378452
Anetan265427498587
Anibare87165232226
Baitsi363450443513
Boe578750731851
Buada467661673739
Denigomodu2,6002,6262,6731,804
Ewa269355397446
Ijuw132206169178
Meneng1,0241,3891,3231,380
Nibok328577479484
Uaboe272447386318
Yaren559672632747
Total7,9829,91910,0659,945

Sources: 

  1. [1] Source for 1992 and 2002 census data is 2002 Nauru Census Main Report  (retrieved 2009-05-31), Table 2.2, p. 14.
  2. [2] "Ershiyi (21) Shiji Shijie Diming Lu", a three-volume world gazetteer, gives the populations and areas of the districts as of the 1983 census.
  3. [3] National Report on Population and Housing  (retrieved 2015-09-19).
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