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Kiribati
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THE Republic of Kiribati (基里巴斯) consists of 33 coral atolls (环状珊瑚岛) and islands that spread over an area of more than five million sq km of the Central Pacific Ocean and straddle the equator and the international date line (国际日期变更线).
The republic includes the Gilbert Islands, Banaba, the Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands. More than 95 per cent of the population lives on the Gilbert Islands, a group of 16 coral atolls located about 4,500 km northeast of Australia.
The capital of Kiribati is Bairiki, on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
The low-lying coral islands are surrounded by reefs and include lagoons（泻湖）. The soil is poor, but the islands are well covered by coconut palms that provide copra（干椰子仁）, the main export.
The climate of Kiribati is tropical marine with temperatures normally ranging between 22C and 32C.
The people of Kiribati are mostly of Micronesian (密克罗尼西亚人) origin. The islet of Bairiki is somewhat urbanized, but most of the people on the other islands live in villages of thatched huts. The official language is English.
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