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... Saudi Arabia has an oil-based economy with strong government controls over major economic activities. It possesses more than 20% of the world's proven petroleum reserves, ranks as the largest exporter ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
possesses
Sierra Leone is an extremely poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources, its physical and social infrastructure is not well developed, and ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/e_ec.html
possessing
strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and southern approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing an archipelago of about 2,000 islands
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possession
... the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and ...
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possession
... it his hideout early in the 18th century. Annexed by France in 1855, it was seized by Mexico in 1897. Arbitration eventually awarded the island to France, which took possession in 1935
www.exxun.com/ClippertonIsland/a_fg.html
possession
possession of France; administered directly by the Minister of Overseas France
www.exxun.com/ClippertonIsland/d_gv.html
possession
... be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980 ...
www.exxun.com/Dominica/a_fg.html
possession
Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF): Ground Forces, Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) (2008) note: Ethiopia is landlocked and has no navy; following the secession of Eritrea, Ethiopian naval facilities remained in Eritrean possession
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/h_ml.html
possession
... the site of a small military garrison that staffs a weather station. Glorioso Islands: A French possession since 1892, the Glorioso Islands are composed of two lushly vegetated coral islands (Ile Glorieuse ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
possession
... Islands, Juan de Nova Island (Iles Eparses): a small French military garrison and a few meteorologists on each possession; visited by scientists Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): uninhabited, except for visits by scientists
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/c_pp.html
possession
one or more meteorological stations on each possession; note - meteorological station on Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses) is important for forecasting cyclones
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/f_cm.html
possession
Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/a_fg.html
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Great Britain formally acquired possession of Malta in 1814. The island staunchly supported the UK through both World Wars and remained in the Commonwealth when it became independent in 1964. A decade ...
www.exxun.com/Malta/a_fg.html
possession
... the island for most of the 18th century, but it finally was confirmed as a British possession in 1783. The island's sugar plantation economy was converted to small farm landholdings in ...
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/a_fg.html
possession
... and France during the first half of the 19th century, the island was made a French possession in 1853. It served as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for ...
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/a_fg.html
possession
... at Castries, was contested between England and France throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries (changing possession 14 times); it was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Even after the abolition ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/a_fg.html
possession
... seabirds, water birds, land birds, insects, and vegetation not found elsewhere. Baker Island: The US took possession of the island in 1857, and its guano deposits were mined by US and British ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
possessions
... independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956. The internationalized city of Tangier and most Spanish possessions were turned over to the new country that same year. Morocco virtually annexed Western Sahara ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/a_fg.html
possessions
First settled by the French in the early 17th century, the islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions.
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/a_fg.html
possessions
... and Melilla - and 17 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/b_mp.html
possessions
... 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65 ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/a_fg.html
possible
... note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2008
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