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Updates: 

I've added 2011 census data from source [3]. Source [3] includes something called "Location" in all of its lists of districts. No map shows a district called "Location." Source [3], p. 1, says"The Nauru Phosphate Corporation‘s main office is based in the district of Aiwo, which explains the Location settlement being located in Denigomodu, the neighbouring district of Aiwo." I conclude that "Location" is a populated place, not an administrative division, and lies within Denigomodu district, so I combined the populations on those two lines.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, has new ISO district codes for Nauru. They are shown in the table below. They replace codes from a draft version, ISO/DIS 2166-2, which had not been supported.

Country overview: 

Short name	NAURU
ISO code	NR
FIPS code	NR
Language	Nauru (na),English (en)
Time zone	+12
Capital	Yaren

 

Initially a German possession, Nauru was occupied by Australia in 1914-11. The League of Nations mandated it to the British Empire on 1920-12-17. Nauru was occupied by Japan during World War II. The United Nations extended the League of Nations mandate as a trusteeship of Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom on 1947-11-01. Nauru became independent in 1968.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Republikken Nauru (formal)
2. Dutch: Nauru
3. English: Republic of Nauru (formal)
4. Finnish: Nauru
5. French: Nauru f
6. German: Nauru n
7. Icelandic: Nárú
8. Italian: Nauru
9. Nauru: Naoero (formal)
10. Norwegian: Nauru, Republikken Nauru (formal)
11. Portuguese: Nauru
12. Russian: Республика Науру (formal)
13. Spanish: Nauru, República f de Nauru (formal)
14. Swedish: Nauru
15. Turkish: Nauru Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Primary subdivisions: 

Nauru is divided into fourteen districts.

District	HASC	ISO	FIPS	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)
Aiwo	NR.AI	01	NR01	1,220	1.1	0.4
Anabar	NR.AB	02	NR02	452	1.5	0.6
Anetan	NR.AT	03	NR03	587	1.0	0.4
Anibare	NR.AR	04	NR04	226	3.1	1.2
Baiti	NR.BA	05	NR05	513	1.2	0.5
Boe	NR.BO	06	NR06	851	0.5	0.2
Buada	NR.BU	07	NR07	739	2.6	1.0
Denigomodu	NR.DE	08	NR08	1,804	0.9	0.3
Ewa	NR.EW	09	NR09	446	1.2	0.5
Ijuw	NR.IJ	10	NR10	178	1.1	0.4
Meneng	NR.ME	11	NR11	1,380	3.1	1.2
Nibok	NR.NI	12	NR12	484	1.6	0.6
Uaboe	NR.UA	13	NR13	318	0.8	0.3
Yaren	NR.YA	14	NR14	747	1.5	0.6
14 districts				9,945	21.1	8.2
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. If periods are replaced by hyphens, these are the same as the district codes from ISO/DIS 3166-2. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Population: 2011-10-30 census. Capitals: The districts, which average only 1.5 sq. km., can be considered as the Nauruan equivalent of cities; thus, each district is its own capital.

Territorial extent: 

Nauru consists of just a single island.

The UN LOCODE page  for Nauru lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Other names of subdivisions: 

1. Baiti: Baitsi (variant)
2. Denigomodu: Denig (informal)

Population history:

District	1983-05-13	1992-04-17	2002-09-23	2011-10-30
Aiwo	812	874	1,051	1,220
Anabar	226	320	378	452
Anetan	265	427	498	587
Anibare	87	165	232	226
Baitsi	363	450	443	513
Boe	578	750	731	851
Buada	467	661	673	739
Denigomodu	2,600	2,626	2,673	1,804
Ewa	269	355	397	446
Ijuw	132	206	169	178
Meneng	1,024	1,389	1,323	1,380
Nibok	328	577	479	484
Uaboe	272	447	386	318
Yaren	559	672	632	747
Total	7,982	9,919	10,065	9,945

Sources: 

1. [1] Source for 1992 and 2002 census data is 2002 Nauru Census Main Report  (retrieved 2009-05-31), Table 2.2, p. 14.
2. [2] "Ershiyi (21) Shiji Shijie Diming Lu", a three-volume world gazetteer, gives the populations and areas of the districts as of the 1983 census.
3. [3] National Report on Population and Housing  (retrieved 2015-09-19).