Flag: Nauru 🇳🇷
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The flag of Nauru — the world's smallest island nation-state by area (21 km²), whose brief period of immense wealth from phosphate mining made it temporarily one of the world's richest countries per capita in the 1970s-1980s. When the phosphate ran out, Nauru faced economic collapse and environmental devastation from mining.

Nauru now houses Australian immigration detention centers. Used for Pacific Island geography, resource curse discussions, environmental mining devastation, and the cautionary tale of suddenly acquired and rapidly lost resource wealth.