FOOTY AROUND THE WORLD: Nauru
- Thursday, March 09 2017 @ 12:30 pm ACDT
- Contributed by: Frederick Shaibani
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The following story originally appeared on Frederick's Blog and the original article can be found here.
The smallest island nation in the world, Nauru has a notable and sizable presence in the international Aussie rules community. With 680 registered junior and senior players out of a population of roughly 10,000, Nauru has the highest participation rate of any country in the world (30-35%).
That’s pretty impressive for a nation that is less than a century old and covers less than 10 square miles.
Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island in the central Pacific, located just south of the Equator in the vicinity of several archipelago-nations, including the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati.