Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical; monsoonal; rainy season (November to February)
_#_Terrain: sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
_#_Natural resources: phosphates
_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
_#_Environment: only 53 km south of Equator
_#_Note: 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
_*People #_Population: 9,333 (July 1991), growth rate 1.4% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 19 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)