Kiribati Government Initial Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / prepared by Ministry of Environment and Social Development in collaboration with the Country Change Study team and noted by the Kiribati Government
Climate Change Resilience
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The Republic of Kiribati is a small island state with a total land area of 800 sq. km distributed unequally between 32 low lying atolls and one raised limestone atoll. The 32 atolls are generally within any heights from less than a meter to four meters above the mean sea level. Eleven of these atolls are uninhabitable because of their small size and lack of ground water lens. The atolls spread over a total Exclusive Economic Zone of 3.5 million sq. km.