Boe (district)
Location Boes | |
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surface | |
Rank (within Naurus) | 14 (of 14) |
All in all | 0.5 km² |
country | 0.5 km² |
Water (%) | 0 |
Residents | |
Rank (within Naurus) | 4 (of 14) |
Total status (2011) | 851 |
density | 1,702 inhabitants / km² |
geography | |
Time zone | UTC +12 |
Geographical location | 0 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E |
width | approx. 1.0 km |
length | approx. 0.5 km |
Highest position | approx. 50 m |
Average location | approx. 15 m |
Lowest position | approx. 0 m |
Boe is a district of the island state of Nauru in the southwest of the island. With 0.5 km² it is the smallest district (slightly larger than Vatican City ), but still has 851 inhabitants. It borders Aiwo in the north, Buada in the northeast and Yaren in the southeast. Boe belongs to the constituency of the same name Boe .
According to Paul Hambruch, Boe means “ leeward ”.
Historic villages
Until 1968, today's Boe district was a district , which consisted of four historic villages.
Personalities
- Auweyida (before 1850–1921), king
- Kinza Clodumar (* 1945), politician and former president
- Tyoni Batsiua (1981-2004), weightlifter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Table 1: Population size and growth rate by district. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Republic of Nauru. Census 2011. National Report on Population and Housing. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, p. 8. Retrieved July 15, 2015.