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Bairiki is just one of many islets on the atoll of Tarawa. Tarawa is the capital of Kiribati, although the admninistrative offices (and in a sense, therefore, the capitol "city") is Bairiki. Anyway, this article is about Tarawa, and not just Bairiki - Marshman 21:02, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Plusminus right: Tarawa is an atoll which consists of several (min. 24) islets. One of these islands is Bairiki. On this little island lies the village of Bairiki (the only town of this island), and that's the national capital of Kiribati. There are bigger towns on Tarawa. Belgian man 18:03, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Not exactly: the capitol is precisely South Tarawa (TUC), because neither Tarawa nor Bairiki are correct administrative divisions. Enzino 20:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, you're right. Belgian man (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move. Duja► 13:15, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Tarawa Atoll → Tarawa — None of the other Gilbert Islands have "Atoll" following its name. If we are going to use the original Gilbertese names I think they should all be consistant. This one sticks out. Plus I think we can all agree that all the items currently listed on the Tarawa disambiguation page were named after Tarawa Atoll. A Tarawa (disambiguation) link would be added to the top of the Tarawa page. —Henry W. Schmitt 07:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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