Country · Oceania
Kiribati
Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati
Kiribati is a country in Micronesia. Its capital city is South Tarawa. About 116 thousand people live there, in an area of 811 square kilometres.
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Where is Kiribati?
Kiribati lies in Micronesia, on the continent of Oceania.
It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 158 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 1 143 km long.
It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.
How big is Kiribati?
Kiribati covers 811 square kilometres.
Luxembourg is about 3.2 times bigger.
Among the world's countries that makes it the 171st largest.
If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 142.8 people on every square kilometre.
Who lives in Kiribati?
About 116 thousand people live in Kiribati.
That is the 177th biggest population in the world.
People here speak English and Gilbertese.
They pay with the Australian dollar ($).
On average, people born here can expect to live about 60 years.
The land of Kiribati
Its coast runs for about 1 143 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 57 days.
It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Kiribati different?
Websites from here often end in .ki.
Kiribati and the rest of the world
Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0 live in Kiribati.
It takes up about 0 % of all the land that countries stand on.
Within Oceania it is the 8th largest of 14 countries, and the 8th most populated.
That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.
Where this country lands in the record lists
Questions children ask
What is the capital of Kiribati?
The capital of Kiribati is South Tarawa. It is the city where the country's government works from.
How many people live in Kiribati?
About 116 thousand people live in Kiribati, which makes it the 177th most populated country in the world. (Source: World Bank, 2018.)
How big is Kiribati?
Kiribati covers 811 square kilometres, making it the 171st largest country in the world. Luxembourg is about 3.2 times bigger.
Which continent is Kiribati in?
Kiribati is in Oceania, in the part called Micronesia.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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