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Nauru (Island country in the pacific ocean) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies within the Micronesia subregion of Oceania, with its nearest neighbour being Banaba (part of Kiribati) about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.

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[–] olof@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For Nauru residents today, all food must also be imported because of the loss of 90% of arable land due to phosphate mining, leaving people with a diet of mainly processed foods, such as rice and sugar.

This is a bit sad I think

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

And there are worse things even.