Kiribati * * Republic of Kiribati (English: The Republic of Kiribati), referred to as Kiribati, is a Pacific island country. China has 33 small islands, which are divided into gilbert islands, Phoenix Islands and Lane Islands. There are 32 atolls and 65,438+0 coral islands.
From the famous Christmas Island in the east to barnabas Island in the west, it is distributed in the sea area of 3,800 kilometers on the equator and has the largest marine protected area in the world. ?
Kiribati is located in the Pacific Ocean, and its Lane Islands is the only place in the world that uses UTC+ 14 time zone, which makes Kiribati the earliest country in the world to start a day. As global warming causes the sea level to rise, seawater may flood the country.
Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and the only country in the world that crosses the intersection of the equator and the international international date line.
The highest point in Kiribati is only 2 meters above sea level. Most of them are low-level coral islands with barren and sandy land and no rivers and lakes.
Kiribati has a tropical maritime climate. The annual average temperature is 27℃, and the annual average precipitation is1600 mm. Affected by the El Ni? o phenomenon, there is continuous drought and little rain for more than 10 months every year at the beginning of 2 1 century.
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The historical evolution of Kiribati;
From 65438 to 0892, gilbert islands and Ellis Islands became British protectorates "Gilbert and Ellis Islands".
19 16 became a British colony. 197 1 became an autonomous region. 1974, because of racial disputes, the residents of Ellis Islands belonging to West Asians in Porini demanded to vote and secede from Micronesia-dominated gilbert islands.
1978, Ellis islands became Tuvalu, and the following year gilbert islands declared its independence (1979) and changed its name to Kiribati.
After independence, the United States announced that it would abandon the Phoenix Islands and Lane Islands, two sparsely populated islands, collectively known as Lane Islands, and join as a part of Kiribati.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Kiribati