![](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2024/01/24/22c0b6b7b41147e78cdeb9e528072e7d.jpg)
Aerial view of Nauru. (Photo/Agencies)
China and Nauru resumed diplomatic relations on Wednesday.
Nauru is an island country in the Central Pacific with a land area of 21.1 square kilometers and a marine exclusive economic zone of 320,000 square kilometers. The island is 6 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide, the coastline is about 30 kilometers long, and the highest point is 61 meters above sea level.
![](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2024/01/24/b288c17be132439d8785e7ff9393b3a8.jpg)
A local boy looks over the landscape scarred from years of phosphate mining in Nauru. (Photo/Agencies)
![](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2024/01/24/0b0a78203a064e5395a84aada3584656.jpg)
The supply ship "Capitaine Fearn" (R) is dwarfed by the massive cantilevers which once loaded phosphate onto ships off Nauru. (Photo/Agencies)
![](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2024/01/24/ebd30b6572414c1f9061e1ebdcf68e25.jpg)
Children leap for the ball as they practice their brand of Australian Football or "Aussie Rules" in Nauru. (Photo/Agencies)
![](http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2024/01/24/83efb5004a9d4102831d019a93643455.jpg)
A fisherman is pictured at sunset at the northern end of the airport runway on the small nation island of Nauru. (Photo/Agencies)