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ID: 1000171
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Record Type: administrative |
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Liberia (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 06 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 6.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 009 30 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -9.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Indigenous inhabitants were of Mande, Kiva & W Atlantic groups when Africans from America settled here in early 20th cen.; name derives from Latin for "free," nation having been founded to provide home for freed slaves; official language is English, though over 20 Niger-Congo dialects are also spoken. |
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| Liberia (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Liberia (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Republic of Liberia (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Libéria (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| République du Libéria (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Liberia (C,O)
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| LBR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| LR (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO430 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| LI00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Free and Independent Republic of Liberia (H,V)
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............ | named in 1847 |
| Liberian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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constituted in 1847 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1847 |
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United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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