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... People's Assembly or Folketinget (179 seats, including 2 from Greenland and 2 from the Faroe Islands; members are elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve four ...
www.exxun.com/Denmark/d_gv.html
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... international: country code - 45; a series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat ...
www.exxun.com/Denmark/f_cm.html
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... 12, Isle of Man 41, Italy 2, Jamaica 1, Liberia 12, Lithuania 9, Malta 10, Marshall Islands 9, Mexico 2, Netherlands 19, Netherlands Antilles 1, Norway 26, Panama 32, Portugal 3, Singapore ...
www.exxun.com/Denmark/g_tr.html
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Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; Faroese continue to study proposals for full independence; sovereignty dispute with Canada over ...
www.exxun.com/Denmark/i_ti.html
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Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which ...
www.exxun.com/Dominica/a_fg.html
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... cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; microwave radio relay and SHF radiotelephone links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; VHF and ...
www.exxun.com/Dominica/f_cm.html
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deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/b_mp.html
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... links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/f_cm.html
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... 190 years of Spanish rule. This tiny country, composed of a mainland portion plus five inhabited islands, is one of the smallest on the African continent. President Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO has ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/a_fg.html
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coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/b_mp.html
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... the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/d_gv.html
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... final delimitation; UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane and lesser islands and to create a maritime boundary in the hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/i_ti.html
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2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
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total: 45,226 sq km land: 43,211 sq km water: 2,015 sq km note: includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea
www.exxun.com/Estonia/b_mp.html
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... Bulgaria), Constanta (Romania), Copenhagen (Denmark), Galati (Romania), Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre (France), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Marseille (France), Naples (Italy), Peiraiefs or Piraeus ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/g_tr.html
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... its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that landed seven weeks ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
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overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem; reindeer were introduced to the islands in 2001 for commercial reasons; this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the 1986 ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/b_mp.html
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... white ram (sheep raising was once the major economic activity) above the sailing ship Desire (whose crew discovered the islands) with a scroll at the bottom bearing the motto DESIRE THE RIGHT
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/d_gv.html
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... activity. In 1987, the government began selling fishing licenses to foreign trawlers operating within the Falkland Islands' exclusive fishing zone. These license fees total more than $40 million per year, which help ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/e_ec.html
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... radiotelephone and private VHF/CB radiotelephone networks provide effective service to almost all points on both islands international: country code - 500; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) with links through London ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/f_cm.html
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Argentina, which claims the islands in its constitution and briefly occupied them by force in 1982, agreed in 1995 to no longer seek settlement by force; UK continues to reject Argentine requests ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/i_ti.html
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The population of the Faroe Islands is largely descended from Viking settlers who arrived in the 9th century. The islands have been connected politically to Denmark since the 14th century. A high ...
www.exxun.com/FaroeIslands/a_fg.html
