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Nauru
     
Nauru
an independent republic, one of the smallest nations in the world, on an island in the southwest Pacific Ocean near the Equator. Population: 12,570 (2003). Capital: Yaren. It has large amounts of phosphate salts, which are used for making plants grow better, and an important phosphate mining industry.
—Nauruan noun, adjective
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