On September 18, 2007 Kiribati became the 105th Member State of the BIE.
Kiribati is consisted of three principal archipelagoes, including 32 atolls and a "high island". If the narrowness of the emerged grounds do of it one of the smallest countries of the world (less than 811 km 2), their dispersion makes it possible the Kiribati to assert a maritime zone of 3,550,000 km 2.
The Kiribati are with horse on the equator and the date-line, at the same time in Polynesia and Micronesia, in the south of the Marshall Islands and of Hawaii and in the north of Tuvalu, of the Samoa, of the Cook islands and French Polynesia.

Official language: gilbertin, English
Capital: Tarawa-south
Surface: 811 km 2
Population: 103.092 hab
Density: 127,1 hab. /km 2
Currency: Australian dollar 3 (AUD)