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Reunion (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 21 06 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -21.1000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 055 36 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 55.6000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises Réunion island and several small islands in an administrative region of France; island was sighted by Portuguese in 1513; claimed by France in 1638; colonized 1660s as post for French East India Company; occupied by British early 19th century. |
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| Réunion (preferred,C,V,English)
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| Réunion (Somali)
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| Réunion (Maltese)
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| Réunion (Indonesian)
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| Réunion (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Réunion (Finnish)
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| Réunion (Swedish)
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| Réunion (Irish Gaelic)
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| Réunion (Welsh)
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| Réunion (German)
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| Réunion (Czech)
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| Réunion (Dutch)
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| Réunion (Afrikaans)
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| Réunion (French)
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| Réunion (Icelandic)
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| Réunion (Faroese)
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| Réunion (Italian)
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| Réunion (Estonian)
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| Réunion (Greenlandic)
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| Réunion (Romansh)
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| Réunion (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Réunion (North Ndebele)
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| Réunion (Shona)
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| Département de la Réunion (C,V,French)
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| Department of Réunion (C,O)
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| Department of Reunion (C,O,English)
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| Reunion (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Reunion (Croatian)
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| Reunion (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Reunion (Danish)
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| Reunion (Polish)
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| Reunion (Romanian)
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| Reunion (Slovak)
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| Reunion (Slovene)
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| Reunion (Basque)
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| Reunion (Turkish)
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| Reunion (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Reunion (Northern Sami)
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| Reunión (C,O,Spanish)
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| Reunión (Galician)
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| Reunião (C,O,Portuguese)
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| REU (C,O,ISO3L)
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| RE (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO638 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Reunionese (C,V,English,U,A)
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| La Réunion (C,U,O,French-P)
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| Region of Reunion (C,V,English)
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| Région Réunion (C,U,French)
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| Amazinga ya Reyiniyo (C,U,Rundi)
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| Illa de la Reunió (C,U,Catalan)
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| i-Réunion (C,U,Zulu)
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| Larenion (C,U,Malagasy)
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| La Reunion (C,U,German)
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| Lenyo (C,U,Lingala)
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| Lenyo (Luba-Katanga)
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| Leyunyoni (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Liʻiunioni (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Orílẹ́ède Riuniyan (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Rawuniyan (C,U,Hausa)
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| Reinïon (C,U,Sangho)
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| Reinjona (C,U,Latvian)
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| Rejunion (C,U,Bosnian)
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| Reunio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Reünion (C,U,Breton)
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| Reunionas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Réunion nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Rewiñoo (C,U,Fulah)
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| Reyuɲɔŋ (C,U,Bambara)
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| Reyuniɔn (C,U,Akan)
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| Reyunion (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Riyunioni (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Riyunioni (Swahili (generic))
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| Рэюньён (C,U,Belarusian)
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| 留尼汪 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Реюньон (C,U,Russian)
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| Реинион (C,U,Serbian)
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| เรอูนียง (C,U,Thai)
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| ראוניון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ρεϋνιόν (C,U,Greek)
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| ریونیون (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| रियूनियन (C,U,Marathi)
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| रियूनियन (Hindi)
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| Реюньйон (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ری یونین (C,U,Urdu)
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| ሪዩኒየን (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ሪዩኒየን (Amharic)
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| রিইউনিয়ন (C,U,Bengali)
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| റീയൂണിയന് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Ријунион (C,U,Macedonian)
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| రియూనియన్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ರೀಯೂನಿಯನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ரீயூனியன் (C,U,Tamil)
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| રીયુનિયન (C,U,Gujarati)
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| रियुनियन (C,U,Nepali)
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| レユニオン島 (C,U,Japanese)
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| 리유니온 (C,U,Korean)
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| روينيون (C,U,Arabic)
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| Реюниън (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| რეიუნიონი (C,U,Georgian)
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| ରିୟୁନିଅନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| Riunione (C,U,Italian)
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| 레위니옹 (C,U,Korean)
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Additional Parents: |
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Reunion (dependent state) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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French since 17th cen., administered independently of Madagascar since 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| overseas department (C) |
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status established 1946; boundaries expanded 1973 |
| controlled region (B) |
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French, 1638-1810, & currently; British, July 1810-April 1815 |
| penal settlement (H) |
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French, established 1638 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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| dependent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Saint-Denis .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Reunion, Réunion island) [1092341] |
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