Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Nauru instead of Svalbard, you would:
Geography
see 99.2% less coastline
Svalbard has a total of 3,587 km of coastline. In Nauru, that number is 30 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Nauru: At a glance
Nauru is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 21 sq km. The exact origins of the Nauruans are unclear since their language does not resemble any other in the Pacific region. Germany annexed the island in 1888. A German-British consortium began mining the island's phosphate deposits early in the 20th century. Australian forces occupied Nauru in World War I; it subsequently became a League of Nations mandate. After the Second World War - and a brutal occupation by Japan - Nauru became a UN trust territory. It achieved independence in 1968 and joined the UN in 1999 as the world's smallest independent republic.
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