Volta conventional long form: none conventional short form: Burkina Faso local long form: none local short form: Burkina Faso former: Upper Volta, Republic of Upper Volta www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/d_gv.html
Volta Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial lake www.exxun.com/Ghana/b_mp.html
Volta 10 regions; Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western www.exxun.com/Ghana/d_gv.html
Volta 1,293 km note: 168 km for launches and lighters on Volta, Ankobra, and Tano rivers; 1,125 km of arterial and feeder waterways on Lake Volta (2007) www.exxun.com/Ghana/g_tr.html
Voltaic Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% www.exxun.com/Mali/c_pp.html
Voltaiques Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998) www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/c_pp.html
Voltas landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/b_mp.html
volume ... With few natural resources, Belgium must import substantial quantities of raw materials and export a large volume of manufactures, making its economy unusually dependent on the state of world markets. Roughly three ... www.exxun.com/Belgium/e_ec.html
volume ... capital inflows are regaining strength and the currency has resumed appreciating. The appreciation has slowed export volume growth, but since 2004, Brazil's growth has yielded increases in employment and real wages ... www.exxun.com/Brazil/e_ec.html
volume ... Eritrea on 24 May 1993; the Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in T'ana Hayk (Lake Tana) in northwest Ethiopia; three major crops are believed ... www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/b_mp.html
volume ... being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently ... www.exxun.com/Iran/f_cm.html
volumes ... in recent years, while infrastructure bottlenecks and a tight labor market are constraining growth in export volumes and stoking inflation. Australia's budget has been in surplus since 2002 due to strong ... www.exxun.com/Australia/e_ec.html
Voluntar no regular military forces; Voluntary Military Force (Corpi Militari Voluntar) performs ceremonial duties and limited police support functions (2008) www.exxun.com/SanMarino/h_ml.html
voluntarily ... servitude and commercial sexual exploitation; men and women from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia migrate voluntarily to Bahrain to work as laborers or domestic servants where some face conditions of involuntary ... www.exxun.com/Bahrain/i_ti.html
voluntarily ... forced labor, marriage, and prostitution; some North Korean women and children seeking to leave their country voluntarily cross the border into China and are then sold into prostitution, marriage, or forced labor ... www.exxun.com/China/i_ti.html
voluntarily ... 22 years; it finally attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844. In 1861, the Dominicans voluntarily returned to the Spanish Empire, but two years later they launched a war that restored ... www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/a_fg.html
voluntarily ... common form of trafficking involves North Korean women and girls who cross the border into China voluntarily; additionally, North Korean women and girls are lured out of North Korea to escape poor ... www.exxun.com/Korea_North/i_ti.html
voluntary 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008) www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/h_ml.html
voluntary ... problems (urban and rural) typical of an industrializing economy such as deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, air pollution, and water pollution note: Argentina is a world leader in setting voluntary greenhouse gas targets www.exxun.com/Argentina/b_mp.html
voluntary ... however, reached double-digit levels in 2006 and the government of President Nestor KIRCHNER responded with "voluntary" price agreements with businesses, as well as export taxes and restraints. Multi-year price freezes ... www.exxun.com/Argentina/e_ec.html
voluntary 18-24 years of age for voluntary military service (18-21 requires parental permission); no conscription (2001) www.exxun.com/Argentina/h_ml.html
voluntary 18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2006) www.exxun.com/Armenia/h_ml.html
voluntary 17 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription; women allowed to serve in Army combat units in non-combat support roles (2008) www.exxun.com/Australia/h_ml.html
voluntary 18-35 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for male or female voluntary service; service obligation 7 months of training, followed by an 8-year reserve obligation (2006) www.exxun.com/Austria/h_ml.html
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