The fattest country on Earth

Another interesting thing about Nauru you should know is Nauru is the Fattest Country in the world. According to the CIA's World Factbook, 71.1 percent of its 10,000 residents are obese (97% of men and 93% of women are overweight or obese). Only American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, can stop it, making Nauru the most overweight sovereign state on the planet.

A slew of other South Pacific nations follows, including Tonga, Samoa, Palau, and Kiribati. In fact, Kuwait is the only country outside the region to feature in the top 10. There is a clear obesity problem in the South Pacific, with the weight of adults increasing at four times the global average. Some have claimed the islanders are genetically predisposed to putting on weight, while a 2014 report suggested that colonial settlers, who taught them Western ways of eating - frying fish, for example, rather than eating it raw - are to blame.