Kiribati

Kiribati

Kiribati ranks 210th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kosovo, San Marino, and Gibraltar. Memorable people born in present day Kiribati include Taneti Mamau, Anote Tong, and Teatao Teannaki. Memorable people who died in Kiribati include Doris Miller, and Teatao Teannaki. Kiribati has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians.

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia sub-region of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comprises 32 atolls and other islands and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km2 (313 sq mi) dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean. The spread of the country's islands, from Banaba in the west to Kiritimati in the east straddles the equator and the 180th meridian. The International Date Line goes around Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching 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. Read more on Wikipedia