Dates: 23 July to 3 August
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Regarding the Commonwealth Games, which country is the best?
Australia maybe, given their glad brandishing custom and affection of beating England at anything? South Africa, possibly? Then again what about Canada?
Wrong, wrong and wrong once more.
It's a remote island in the South Pacific which measures just 8.1 square miles in region (short of what an eighth the span of Glasgow, which is going to have the twentieth version of the Games) and has been secured in fowl droppings for a great many years.
What's Nauru like?
"It's distinctive - absolutely not like the Seychelles! It just takes about 20 minutes to drive around the island.
"It's exceptionally essential and you either love it or disdain it. The individuals are awesome however.
"At first when I came to work here I was flying in and flying out, however I got stuck there for three weeks once.
"Week One, I didn't recognize what to do. Week Two was better and by Week Three I was cherishing it!"
Australian columnist Rod Henshaw, who functioned as a Nauruan government media consultant from 2008-2013 preceding opening an inn on the island
A generally desolate spot in the sea, its 10,000 or thereabouts occupants are among the fattest on the planet. Diabetes is a real open wellbeing issue there.
Yet Nauru, the world's most modest republic, has been by a long shot and away the best brandishing country in the Commonwealth since they began contending at the Auckland Games in 1990.
They have won 28 decorations from that point forward, including 10 golds. All have come in weightlifting.
In a populace balanced group table delivered by BBC Sport, Nauru - which lies more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) north-east of Brisbane and fiscally depends intensely upon the mining of the phosphates shaped by those seabirds - has been 45 times more fruitful than second-set Samoa - 1,700 miles (2,700km) away to the south-east.
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