Kiribati flag information

Flag description: the upper half is red with a yellow frigate bird flying over a yellow rising sun, and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean. .

Flags

American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States of, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna

Related region

Oceania

Additional information about Kiribati

Official country name: Republic of Kiribati

Short name: Kiribati
Local names (long and short forms): Republic of Kiribati / Kiribati
Former name: Gilbert Islands
Abbreviation:
Notes: pronounced keer-ree-bahss

Nationality noun / adjective: I-Kiribati (singular and plural) / I-Kiribati

Languages spoken: I-Kiribati, English (official). .

Capital: Tarawa (GMT 9.9, summertime: )

Government type: republic

Population: 110356 ranked 193, (data 2008)

Geography: 21 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. The lowest point is Pacific Ocean 0 m and the highest point is unnamed location on Banaba 81 m. .

Coastline: Coastline 1143 km - . .

Land borders: Kiribati has a total of 0 km landborders, bordering to . . .

Administrative divisions: 3 units; Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands; note - in addition, there are 6 districts (Banaba, Central Gilberts, Line Islands, Northern Gilberts, Southern Gilberts, Tarawa) and 21 island councils - one for each of the inhabited islands (Abaiang, Abemama, Aranuka, Arorae, Banaba, Beru, Butaritari, Kanton, Kiritimati, Kuria, Maiana, Makin, Marakei, Nikunau, Nonouti, Onotoa, Tabiteuea, Tabuaeran, Tamana, Tarawa, Teraina)

Dependent areas:

Independence: 12 July 1979 (from UK)