The 33 atolls that make up Kiribati - the former Gilbert Islands - occupy a vast area in the Pacific. They stretch nearly 4,000 km from east to west, more than 2,000 km from north to south, and ...

Kiribati was inhabited by a single Micronesian ethnic group that spoke the same Oceanic language for 2,000 years before coming into contact with Europeans. The islands were first sighted by ...

1995 - Kiribati unilaterally moves the international date line to the east so the country is no longer divided by it. The move means Kiribati becomes the first country to see the dawn of the third ...