Visiting the Fattest, Most Cigarette-Addicted and Least Visited Country

We travel through Nauru, the world’s least visited country, and explore its tiny size, difficult access, phosphate-mining history, and economic collapse. We visit abandoned mining areas, coastal communities, the airport, Parliament, caves, beaches, and former refugee-camp sites while examining the island’s obesity, poverty, tobacco use, environmental damage, and dependence on imported food. We also learn about Nauru’s plans for deep-sea mining and reflect on how its sudden wealth shaped the country’s troubled present.