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Ewa (district)
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Ewa is a district
in the Pacific nation of the Republic of Nauru
, located in the north of island.
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The northernmost point of Nauru is in the Ewa District.
who lived on the island for forty years.
Capelle & Partner, the supermarket and largest business in Nauru, is located here.
An Australian rules football playing ground is to the east of the supermarket. This is a bare patch of crushed coral.
District
Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...
in the Pacific nation of the Republic of Nauru
Nauru
Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...
, located in the north of island.
Area and population
It covers an area of 1.2 km² and has a population of 300. Ewa is part of the Anetan ConstituencyAnetan Constituency
Anetan Constituency is one of the constituencies of Nauru and is made up of two districts: Anetan and Ewa. It covers an area of 2.2 km², and has a population of 1,180. It returns two members to the Parliament of Nauru in Yaren....
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The northernmost point of Nauru is in the Ewa District.
Notable educational, business and sports facilities
Kayser College, is a K-10 school, and not a technical school. The only institution of higher learning in Nauru is the University of the South Pacific's Nauru Campus, which is located in Aiwo. The college is named after German missionary Alois KayserAlois Kayser
Alois Kayser was a German/French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar . In 1943 he was deported along with most of the Nauruan population by the Japanese to Micronesia, where he died...
who lived on the island for forty years.
Capelle & Partner, the supermarket and largest business in Nauru, is located here.
An Australian rules football playing ground is to the east of the supermarket. This is a bare patch of crushed coral.
See also
- Geography of NauruGeography of NauruNauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania. It is only south of the Equator at coordinates . Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba in Kiribati and...