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| | Kiribati: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | In 1979 it became the independent Republic of Kiribati, without the Ellice Islands, which had become the Dominion of Tuvalu the previous year. |
 | | The Republic of Kiribati now consists of the sixteen Gilbert Islands, Banaba, the eight Phoenix Islands, and eight of the ten Line Islands, with a total land area of 690 square kilometres, spread over an ocean area of a third to half a million square kilometres. |
 | | In mid-1984 the total population was estimated at 61,400, of whom approximately 90% live in the Gilbert Islands, and more than 30% live on Tarawa. |
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