Nauru: Flag and Facts
Nauru's flag is blue with a thin gold stripe across the middle and a big white 12-pointed star sitting below that stripe near the left edge.
- Official name
- Republic of Nauru
- Capital
- Yaren
- Region
- Micronesia
- Population
- 9,930 (2025)
- Languages
- English, Nauru
- Currency
- Australian dollar
- Area
- 21 km² (8 sq mi)
- People
- Nauruan
- Calling code
- +674
- Highest point
- Command Ridge 70 m
- Independence
- 31 January 1968 (from the Australia-, NZ-, and…)
- National symbols
- frigatebird, calophyllum flower
- Borders
- No land borders
About Nauru
The design works like a tiny map. Blue is the Pacific, the gold line is the equator, and the star shows where the island sits just south of it. Its 12 points honor the island's original tribes, and its white color stands for phosphate, the mineral that made Nauru wealthy.
Settlers from Micronesia and Polynesia lived here by 1000 B.C. Strong currents made it hard for boats to land, so the island grew up fairly cut off, and the Nauruan language does not closely match any other in the Pacific. Germany annexed the island in 1888 by confining its 12 chiefs until they gave in. Phosphate was found in 1900 and dug up heavily, yet islanders got only a sliver of the profits. Independence came on 31 January 1968. The whole country covers 21 square kilometers, and its peak, Command Ridge, is just 70 meters high.
Did you know?
- Nauru is about one tenth the size of Washington, D.C.
- Two national emblems represent Nauru: the frigatebird and the calophyllum flower.
- A civil war in 1878 wiped out more than a third of the island's population.
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Questions about Nauru
What currency does Nauru use?
Nauru uses the Australian dollar.
What is the population of Nauru?
Only 9,930 people lived there in 2025.
Sources
- CIA World Factbook, checked October 8, 2026
- REST Countries data (mledoze/countries), checked October 8, 2026
- Flag artwork: flag-icons (MIT), checked October 8, 2026
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