Top: Regional: Oceania: Kiribati: Maps and Views: Geography

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Overview

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.


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Geographic coordinates

1 25 N, 173 00 E


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Elevation extremes

lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location on Banaba 81 m 



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