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Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the Oceania region in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The name Kiribati is the local pronunciation of Gilberts, derived from the main island chain, the Gilbert Islands.
It is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres (1,351,000 square miles) straddling the equator and bordering the International Date Line to the east.
The population is 107,000.
The capital city is South Tarawa.
e-learning
Kiribati is one of the 12 member countries of the University of the South Pacific (USP), and therefore it has access to the facilities of the university, including the USP Centre on Tarawa and, through it, to the USPNet satellite system.
For details of ICT in Education see http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurvey/KIRIBATI.PDF
This could be expanded here into a full country report.