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Palau (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 06 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 6.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 134 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 134.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Early inhabitants were Micronesians (Malay, Melanesian, and Polynesian); Spanish visited islands in 1543, retained control until they were sold to Germany 1899; after WW II, became part of US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; languages are English, Palaun (related to Indonesian), and Sonsorolese-Tobian. |
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| Belau (preferred,C,V,Palauan-P,U,N)
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............ | used since 1981 |
| Belau (Estonian)
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| Belau (Occitan)
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| Beluu er a Belau (C,V,O,Palauan,U,N)
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| Belu’u er a Belau (C,V)
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| Palau (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Palau (Somali)
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| Palau (Sangho)
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| Palau (Maltese)
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| Palau (Vietnamese)
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| Palau (Ilocano)
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| Palau (Indonesian)
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| Palau (Croatian)
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| Palau (Bosnian)
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| Palau (Latvian)
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| Palau (Lingala)
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| Palau (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Palau (Danish)
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| Palau (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Palau (Finnish)
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| Palau (Swedish)
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| Palau (Polish)
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| Palau (Portuguese)
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| Palau (Romanian)
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| Palau (Slovak)
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| Palau (Slovene)
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| Palau (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Palau (Basque)
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| Palau (Aragonese)
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| Palau (Akan)
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| Palau (Irish Gaelic)
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| Palau (Welsh)
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| Palau (Hausa)
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| Palau (German)
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| Palau (Low German)
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| Palau (Albanian)
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| Palau (Breton)
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| Palau (Cornish)
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| Palau (Czech)
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| Palau (Dutch)
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| Palau (Afrikaans)
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| Palau (Galician)
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| Palau (Faroese)
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| Palau (Italian)
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| Palau (Lithuanian)
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| Palau (Greenlandic)
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| Palau (Turkish)
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| Palau (Occitan)
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| Palau (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Palau (Romansh)
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| Palau (Kikuyu)
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| Palau (Luba-Katanga)
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| Palau (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Palau (North Ndebele)
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| Palau (Norwegian)
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| Palau (Pampanga)
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| Palau (Northern Sami)
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| Palau (Shona)
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| Palau (Swahili (generic))
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| Palau (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Palau (Ido)
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| Republic of Palau (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Republic of Belau (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Palaos (C,O,Spanish)
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| Palaos (French-P,U,N)
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| Palaos (Arpitan)
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| République des Palaos (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Palau (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| República de Palau (Catalan)
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| Палау (C,O,Serbian)
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| Палау (Macedonian)
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| Палау (Bulgarian)
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| Палау (Russian-P,U)
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| Палау (Ukrainian)
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| Республика Палау (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 帕劳 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 帕劳共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| بالاو (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً بالاو (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| PLW (C,O,ISO3L)
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| PW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO585 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| PS (C,O,FIPS)
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| Pelauan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Belaŭo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Belavia (C,U,Latin)
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| i-Palau (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Paalu (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Palá (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Palao (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Palau - Belau (C,U,Galician)
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| Palau nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Palaŭo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Palauvuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Palav (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Palaw (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Palawu (C,U,Rundi)
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| Palawu (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Palawu (Bambara)
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| Palawu (Fulah)
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| パラオ (C,U,Japanese)
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| פלאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ประเทศปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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| 팔라우 (C,U,Korean)
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| 帛琉 (C,U,Chinese)
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| پالاو (C,U,Pashto)
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| پالاو (Kurdish)
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| สาธารณรัฐปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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| Παλάου (C,U,Greek)
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| പലാവു (C,U,Malayalam)
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| პალაუ (C,U,Georgian)
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| பாலோ (C,U,Tamil)
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| ፓላው (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ፓላው (Amharic)
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| پالائو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ପାଲାଉ (C,U,Odia)
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| پلاؤ (C,U,Urdu)
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| পালাউ (C,U,Bengali)
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| పలావు (C,U,Telugu)
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| પલાઉ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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| པ་ལཽ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Պալաու (C,U,Armenian)
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| ಪಲಾವು (C,U,Kannada)
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| Палаў (C,U,Belarusian)
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| पलाउ (C,U,Nepali)
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| පලාවු (C,U,Sinhala)
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| पलाऊ (C,U,Marathi)
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| पलाऊ (Hindi)
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| פאלאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Pelew (H,V)
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| Pelew Islands (H,V)
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Additional Parents: |
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Palau (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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became independent in 1994 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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self-governing since 1980 |
| republic (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| dependent state (H) |
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controlled by USA after WW II, internally self-governing 1980, gained control over foreign policy except defense 1986 |
| controlled region (H) |
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Spanish, 16th cen.-1899; German, 1899-1914 |
| mandate (H) |
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Japanese, 1919-1944 |
| trust territory (H) |
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as part of US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1947-1980 |
| freely associated state (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Melekeiok .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Palau, Melekeok) [1099392] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1994 |
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