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New South Wales (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -33.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 146 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 146.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Sighted by British Cook 1770; first European settlement on continent at Botany Bay 1788 (penal colony); name referred to entire continent except W Australia until mid-19th cen.; consolidated into Commonwealth of Australia 1901; principal city is Sydney. |
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| New South Wales (preferred,C,V,English)
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| New South Wales (Swedish)
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| New South Wales, State of (C,V)
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| State of New South Wales (C,V,O)
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| Nouvelle Galles du Sud (C,O)
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| AS02 (C,V,FIPS)
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| Nouvelle-Galles du Sud (C,U,French)
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| Nova Gales do Sul (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Uusi Etelä-Wales (C,U,Finnish)
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| Штат Новый Южный Уэльс (C,U,Russian)
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| Новый Южный Уэльс (C,U,Russian)
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| state (preferred, C) |
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since 1901 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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British, 1778-1901 |
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