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- proper noun The capital of
Kiribati .
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Examples
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On the South Tarawa lagoon in Kiribati, family-scale production of Eucheuma is just beginning.
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Ata Merang, another South Tarawa resident, says she has noticed the extended dry seasons.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"We hardly get rainy seasons any more," says Deputy Secretary of Labour Akka Rimon, who lives on South Tarawa.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Nearly half the population, more than 40,000 people, is crowded into just one of those strands -- the capital island, South Tarawa.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Compounding all these problems is the fact that South Tarawa has too many people.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Owing to severe overcrowding in the capital on South Tarawa, in the 1990s a program of directed migration moved nearly 5,000 inhabitants to outlying atolls, mainly in the Line Islands.
ScreenTalk 2010
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People mine bags of sand along a causeway in South Tarawa.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Owing to severe overcrowding in the capital on South Tarawa, in the 1990s a program of directed migration moved nearly 5,000 inhabitants to outlying atolls, mainly in the Line Islands.
ScreenTalk 2010
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In the last census, only a third of South Tarawa households reported having a flush toilet.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The most frustrating thing about South Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, is its lagoon.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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