Kiribati - (Ocenania)
Information about Kiribati
Capital |
Tarawa |
Area |
810 square kilometres |
Population |
83000 |
Religions |
"Roman Catholic 53%, Protestant (Congregational) 41%, Seventh-Day Adventist, BahaŽi, Church of God, Mormon 6% (1985 est.)" |
Christian (%) |
100.00 |
Protestant (%) |
41.00 |
Reformed (%) |
Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, is a remote country of 33 scattered coral atolls, straddling the equator and the International Date Line, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Kiribati has few national resources. Commercially viable phosphate deposits were exhausted at the time of independence in 1979. Some 20 of the 33 islands are inhabited; Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean: the others are Makatea in French Polynesia and Nauru.
Churches
- Ekaretia ni Boretetanti i Kiribati
Kiribati Protestant Church
- Tangintebu Reirei ni Minita
Tangintebu Theological College
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