This secluded archipelago straddles the equator and is the principal area of the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati.

A chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands, the Gilbert Islands and the other regions of Kiribati won independence from the colonizing Brits in 1979. Spread over 300 square miles, Kiribati is the only country in the world situated within all four hemispheres.

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