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Geography
Area: 719 sq. km (266 sq. mi.) in 32 atolls and one island.
Cities: Capital--Tarawa (pop. 30,000).
Terrain: Archipelagos of low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs.
Climate: Maritime equatorial or tropical.

People
Nationality: Noun and adjective--I-Kiribati (for both singular and plural).
Population: 90,000. Age structure--41% under 15; 3% over 65. Growth rate: 2.5%.
Ethnic groups: Micronesian 98%.
Christian singles note-Religion: Roman Catholic 53%, Kiribati Protestant 39%.
Languages: English (official), Gilbertese/I-Kiribati (de facto).
Health: Life expectancy--male 58 yrs, female 64 yrs. Infant mortality rate--1.3/1,000.
Work force: Majority engaged in subsistence activities.

Government
Type: Republic.
Independence (from United Kingdom): July 12, 1979.
Constitution: July 12, 1979.
Branches: Executive--president (head of state and government, known as Te Beretitenti), vice president, cabinet. Legislative--unicameral House of Assembly. Judicial--High Court, court of appeal, magistrates' courts.
Major political parties: Parties are only very loosely organized--Maneaban Te Mauri (Protect the Maneaba), National Progressive Party, Liberal Party.

Economy (all figures in U.S.$)
GDP: $58.4 million.
GNP (GDP + investment income, fishing license fees, and seamen's remittances): $96.7 million.
GDP per capita: $663.
GDP composition by sector: Services 75%, agriculture 14%, industry 11%.
Industry: Types--tourism, copra, fish.
Trade: Exports--$33.5 million: copra, pet fish, seaweed. Export markets--Japan, Thailand, Korea, U.S. Imports--$87.2 million: food, manufactured goods. Import sources--Japan, Australia, France, Fiji, New Zealand.
External debt: $4 million.
Currency: Australian dollar (A$).

GEOGRAPHY AND PEOPLE
Christian singles note-Kiribati (pronounced "keer-ih-bahs") consists of 32 low-lying atolls and one raised island scattered over an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States. The islands straddle the Equator and lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The three main groupings are the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands. In 1995 Kiribati unilaterally moved the International Date Line to include its easternmost islands, making it the same day throughout the country.

Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Island), the largest coral atoll in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate islands in the Pacific. Except on Banaba, very little land is more than three meters above sea level.

The original inhabitants of Kiribati are Gilbertese, a Micronesian people. Approximately 90% of the population of Kiribati lives on the atolls of the Gilbert Islands. Although the Line Islands are about 2,000 miles east of the Gilbert Islands, most inhabitants of the Line Islands are also Gilbertese. Owing to an annual population growth rate of around 2.5% and severe overcrowding in the capital on South Tarawa, a program of migration has been implemented to move nearly 5,000 inhabitants to outlying atolls, mainly in the Line Islands. The Phoenix Islands have never had any permanent population. A British effort to settle Gilbertese there in the 1930s failed due to lack of water. A new program of settlement to the Phoenix Islands was begun in 1995.

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