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- |BChristmas Island, Kiritimati|N
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- |RConstitution:|N Republic, part of Kiritibati. Member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- |RNature and climate:|N Atollisland in Polynesia.
- Average temperature +28°C throughout the year.
- Percipitation 2000 mm.
- |RPeople:|N Mostly Micronesian, but also some Polynesians, Europeans and Chinese.
- |REconomy:|N Cocosplantations for copraproduction, mainly as selfsubsistent households.
- |RHistory:|N The island was discovered by James Cook at Christmas Eve 1777. British colony since 1882.
- In the 1950:es the island was the base for British tests of nuclear weapons.
- Since 1979 a part of the independent nation Kiribati.