Abaokoro
Abaokoro is a settlement in Kiribati. It is located about nine nautical miles from Tarawa. It is located in the Tarawa Atoll Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati
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Tarawa
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati
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Tarawa Atoll
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati
''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. in the Micronesia region of the central Pacific Ocean. It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert Islands, Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants , half of the country's total population. The atoll was the site of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II.

Etymology

Tarawa is an old Gilbertese form for ''Te Rawa'', meaning "The Passage" (of the Lagoon), named for the unusual large ship channel to the lagoon. In the False etymology, popular etymology based on Kiribati mythology, Nareau, the God-spider, distinguished ''Karawa'', the sky, from ''Marawa'', ...
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Kiribati
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa. The state comprises list of islands of Kiribati, 32 atolls and one remote raised coral atoll, raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is dispersed over of ocean. The islands' spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian. The International Date Line goes around Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching 150th meridian west, 150°W. This brings Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii, into the same day as the Gilbert Islands and places them in the most advanced time zone on Earth: UTC+14:00, UTC+14. Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979. The capital, South Tarawa, now the most populated area, consists of a number of islets, connect ...
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