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Updates: 

Samuel Villavicencio sent me population data for the 1983, 1992, and 2002 censuses. I've verified them all from other sources.

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	1,051	1.1	0.4
Anabar	NR.AB	02	NR02	378	1.5	0.6
Anetan	NR.AT	03	NR03	498	1.0	0.4
Anibare	NR.AR	04	NR04	232	3.1	1.2
Baiti	NR.BA	05	NR05	443	1.2	0.5
Boe	NR.BO	06	NR06	731	0.5	0.2
Buada	NR.BU	07	NR07	673	2.6	1.0
Denigomodu	NR.DE	08	NR08	2,673	0.9	0.3
Ewa	NR.EW	09	NR09	397	1.2	0.5
Ijuw	NR.IJ	10	NR10	169	1.1	0.4
Meneng	NR.ME	11	NR11	1,323	3.1	1.2
Nibok	NR.NI	12	NR12	479	1.6	0.6
Uaboe	NR.UA	13	NR13	386	0.8	0.3
Yaren	NR.YA	14	NR14	632	1.5	0.6
14 districts				10,065	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: 2002-09-23 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.

Other names of subdivisions: 

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

Population history:

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

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. The table has separate entries for the population of "Location", which refers to a housing area for "mining company and government expatriate workers". Location is in Denigomodu district, so I've combined their populations.
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.