Kiribati
Kiribati Population and capital
Population
Population
According to
Countryaah website, Kiribati has about 103,000 residents.
Ethnic groups
The population is made up of approx. 98% Kiribatians, who belong to the
Micronesian ethnic group, and 2% Polynesians and Europeans.
Religions
The main religion is Christianity. The affiliations to the religions
are composed as follows:
- Catholics around 55%
- Protestants around 36%
- Mormons around 3%
- Bahai around 2.2%
- others about 3.7%.
Languages
The official languages of the island state are Kiribati and English.
Capital
Bairiki
The capital of Kiribati is Bairiki, which belongs to the district of
South Tarawa - located on the Tarawa Atoll. Around 45,000 people live in the
South Tarawa district. The human-inhabited area of the atoll extends over
several islands connected by navigable dams. The length of the atoll is
approximately 30 km with a maximum width of a little more than 1 km.
Note
Since Bairiki belongs to the South Tarawa district, South Tawara is often given
as the capital.
Kiribati: Geography and Map
Defined by DigoPaul, the islands of Kiribati are located in the middle of the southern Pacific in
Micronesia.
The state consists of 33 islands with an area of 811 km², 21 of which are
inhabited. The 33 islands are divided into the following island groups:
Christmas Island
The largest island in Kiribati is Christmas Island, which belongs to the group
of Line Islands. It occupies an area of approx. 375 km².
Note
On the Tawara Atoll lies the island of Bairiki, which belongs to the district of
West Tawara - with an area of around 0.5 km² and around 2,750
residents. Since most of the government buildings of Kiribati are located
here, the place is considered the capital of the island state.
Coastline, tidal range
In Kiribati, the mean tidal range is around 2-3 m - with a coastline of all
islands of around 1,145 km.
Compare
The world's highest tidal range can be found in the Bay of Fundy in Canada,
where it is up to 16 meters, and at spring tide even over 20 meters. The Bay of
Fundy is located on the Atlantic between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia, which is called Nova Scotia in German and whose capital is
Halifax.
On the German North Sea coast it varies between one and three meters. In the
western Baltic Sea, on the other hand, the tidal range is only 0.3 meters, while
it is barely noticeable in the eastern Baltic Sea.
Longitude and latitude
Kiribati covers the following latitude (abbreviation Δφ) and longitude
(abbreviation Δλ):
| Δφ = from 3 ° north to 8 ° south
Δλ = from 169 ° east to 152 ° west |
You can find detailed information on this subject under Longitude and
Latitude.
Legal time
For Kiribati, the following value applies to Central European Time (CET),
i.e. the time without summer time. A minus sign means that it is earlier there,
a plus sign that it is later there than after CET:
Further and detailed explanations of the time can be found under Time zones,
time.
The highest point of the sun in Bairiki
Bairiki, the capital of the country, lies at a northern latitude of φ = 01 °
20 'and thus in the middle of the tropics.
If the declination δ of the sun corresponds to the value of 01 ° 20 'N and thus
the image point of the sun is exactly above the city, the sun is vertically
above the city. This happens exactly twice a year, roughly 6 days after March
21st and 6 days before September 21st.
Attention
If the image point of the sun and thus the declination is north of the latitude
of Bairiki, the sun is not in the south at noon, as in our latitudes, but in the
north. In this case, the sun moves from east to north to west, where, like us,
it sets.
Surveys on Kiribaki
The highest point is on the island of Banaba with a height of 81 m.
The Pacific
With a total coastline of 1,145 km, Kiribati borders the Pacific Ocean - more
precisely, Kiribati lies in the South Pacific, the so-called South Pacific. This
region of the Pacific Ocean includes the Polynesian Islands as well as parts of
Melanesia and Micronesia.
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