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ID: 1000119
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Record Type: administrative |
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Israel (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 31 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 034 45 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 34.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area inhabited 100,000 BCE; farming and herding by 10,000 BCE; ruled by Hebrews, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and Ottomans; shares name with kingdom existing 1025-933 BCE; much strife between Israel and neighbors since 1948; holds territory from the 1967 "Six Day War"; official languages are Hebrew and Arabic. |
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| Yisra'el (preferred,C,V,Hebrew (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Yisrael (C,V)
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| Medinat Yisra'el (C,V)
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| Medinat Israel (C,V)
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| Isrā'īl (C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Dawlat Isrá'īl (C,V)
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| Israel (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Israel (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| State of Israel (C,O)
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| Israël (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Êtat d'Israël (C,O)
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| ISR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| IL (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO376 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| IS00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Israeli (C,O,English,U,A)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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established with partition of Palestine between Arabs & Jews, May 15, 1948 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1949 |
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