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SITE NAVIGATION HOME FLAG FINDER MAP FINDER SOURCES ... COUNTRIES S-Z My World Atlas Web COUNTRY NAVIGATION INTRODUCTION GEOGRAPHY PEOPLE GOVERNMENT ... LETTERS AND PICTURES Republic of Kiribati note: pronounced kir-ih-bahss former: Gilbert Islands s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) Click Here to view visitor stats Contact Us Privacy Statement Bob Starkgraf INTRODUCTION Background: The Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati. The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island groups in a 1979 treaty of friendship with Kiribati. TOP OF PAGE GEOGRAPHY Location: Oceania, group of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator; the capital Tarawa is about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia; note - on 1 January 1995, Kiribati proclaimed that all of its territory lies in the same time zone as its Gilbert Islands group (GMT +12) even though the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands under its jurisdiction lie on the other side of the International Date Line Geographic coordinates: 1 25 N, 173 00 E

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