What the records say
- When
- 1979
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Kiribati
- Coordinates
- 1.82° N, 157.38° W
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 57816
- Area km2
- 572
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Kiribati
Island country in the central Pacific
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an archipelagic country spanning the Micronesia and Polynesia sub-regions of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comprises 32 atolls and other islands and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km2 (313 sq mi) dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation