Island may soon be called Naoero – an Indigenous name that honours the country’s heritage and identity Nauru, the world’s smallest republic, may soon make a big change: renaming itself “Naoero”. The switch would “more faithfully honour our nation’s heritage, our language, and our identity”, said...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/11/nauru-name-change-naoero)