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... mandate until after World War II, when it annexed the territory. In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla group launched a war of independence for the area ...
www.exxun.com/Namibia/a_fg.html
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... Republican Party or RP [Henk MUDGE]; South West Africa National Union or SWANU [Rihupisa KANDANDO]; South West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO [Hifikepunye POHAMBA]; United Democratic Front or UDF [Justus GAROEB
www.exxun.com/Namibia/d_gv.html
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Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, 35 miles west of Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/b_mp.html
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illicit producer of cannabis and hashish for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West
www.exxun.com/Nepal/i_ti.html
West
16 regions and 1 territory*; Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Chatham Islands*, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marlborough, Nelson, Northland, Otago, Southland, Taranaki, Tasman, Waikato, Wellington, West Coast
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/d_gv.html
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... central bank, the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), with seven other members of the West African Monetary Union. In December 2000, Niger qualified for enhanced debt relief under the International ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/e_ec.html
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temperate along coast, modified by North Atlantic Current; colder interior with increased precipitation and colder summers; rainy year-round on west coast
www.exxun.com/Norway/b_mp.html
West
... to those nations its waters directly touch. It provides low-cost sea transportation between East and West, extensive fishing grounds, offshore oil and gas fields, minerals, and sand and gravel for the ...
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/e_ec.html
West
... 18th century. The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with West and East sections) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/a_fg.html
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frequent earthquakes, occasionally severe especially in north and west; flooding along the Indus after heavy rains (July and August)
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/b_mp.html
West
... provinces, 1 territory*, and 1 capital territory**; Balochistan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas*, Islamabad Capital Territory**, North-West Frontier Province, Punjab, Sindh note: the Pakistani-administered portion of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/d_gv.html
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mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6%
www.exxun.com/Panama/c_pp.html
West
... provinces; Bougainville, Central, Chimbu, Eastern Highlands, East New Britain, East Sepik, Enga, Gulf, Madang, Manus, Milne Bay, Morobe, National Capital, New Ireland, Northern, Sandaun, Southern Highlands, Western, Western Highlands, West New Britain
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/d_gv.html
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grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere
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varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes
www.exxun.com/Peru/b_mp.html
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Southwestern Europe, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Spain
www.exxun.com/Portugal/b_mp.html
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mostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north; mountains precipitous to sea on west coast; sandy beaches along most coastal areas
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/b_mp.html
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Northern Asia (the area west of the Urals is considered part of Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean
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mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/b_mp.html
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... Napoleon from Saint Helena and it served as a provisioning station for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron on anti-slavery patrol. The island remained under Admiralty control until 1922, when ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
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... in 1783. Between 1960 and 1962, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was a separate administrative unit of the Federation of the West Indies. Autonomy was granted in 1969 and independence in 1979
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/a_fg.html
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Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/b_mp.html
West
... Annual inflation had been pushed down to the low single digits. As a member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), Senegal is working toward greater regional integration with a ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
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... died in 1980) managed to steer their own path between the Warsaw Pact nations and the West for the next four and a half decades. In 1989, Slobodan MILOSEVIC became president of ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
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