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Nauru
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Republic and one of the smallest members of the *Commonwealth, consisting of some 9000 people on a coral island (21sq.km/8sq.m) in the Pacific, northeast of Australia. First visited by British ships in 1798, the island was annexed by Germany in 1888. From 1928 it was a British *mandated territory, administered by Australia. It became independent in 1968.
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