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Japan (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 36 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 138 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 138.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises the Japan island chain, including four main islands (from north to south these are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu) and numerous smaller islands. Early inhabitants, Ainu, were driven north by Manchu-Korean and Malayan invaders; imperial line was founded 7th century BCE; adopted handwriting and much of Chinese culture in the 6th-9th centuries. The emperor was controlled by Shogunates 12th-19th centuries; European contact 16th-19th centuries. The official language is Japanese. |
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| Nihon (preferred,C,V,Japanese (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Nihon (Cornish)
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| Nihon Koku (C,V,Japanese (transliterated))
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| Nihon Koku ()
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| Nihon-koku (C,V,O)
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| Nippon (C,V,Japanese (transliterated),U,N)
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| Nippon-koku (C,V,O)
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| Niphon (C,V)
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| Japan (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Japan (Tigrinya)
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| Japan (Ndonga)
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| Japan (Oromo)
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| Japan (Tsonga)
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| Japan (Venda)
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| Japan (Lak)
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| Japan (Croatian)
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| Japan (Bosnian)
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| Japan (Danish)
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| Japan (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Japan (Swedish)
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| Japan (Cheyenne)
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| Japan (Choctaw)
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| Japan (Afar)
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| Japan (Welsh)
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| Japan (Marshallese)
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| Japan (Hausa)
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| Japan (German)
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| Japan (Low German)
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| Japan (Breton)
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| Japan (Cornish)
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| Japan (Dutch)
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| Japan (Afrikaans)
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| Japan (Icelandic)
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| Japan (Faroese)
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| Japan (Scots)
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| Japan (Luxembourgish)
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| Japan (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Japan (North Ndebele)
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| Japan (Norwegian)
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| Japan (Shona)
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| Japan (Limburgan)
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| Japon (C,O,Japanese)
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| Japon (Kurdish)
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| Japon (Breton)
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| Japon (French-P,U,N)
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| Japon (Occitan)
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| Japon (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Japon (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Giappone (C,O,Japanese)
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| Giappone (Italian)
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| Japón (C,O,Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Japón (Extremaduran)
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| Japão (C,O,Portuguese)
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| 日本 (C,O,Japanese-P,U)
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| 日本 (Chinese, Gan)
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| 日本 (Chinese, Wu)
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| 日本 (Chinese, Yue)
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| 日本 (Chinese,U)
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| 日本国 (C,O,O,Japanese,U)
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| 日本国 (Chinese,U)
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| Япония (C,O,Tatar)
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| Япония (Uzbek)
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| Япония (Bashkir)
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| Япония (Lezgian)
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| Япония (Bulgarian)
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| Япония (Russian-P,U)
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| Япония (Karachay-Balkar)
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| Япония (Komi)
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| Япония (Udmurt)
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| ا اًَبان (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| JPN (C,O,ISO3L)
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| JP (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO392 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| JA (C,O,FIPS)
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| Japanese (C,O,English,U,A)
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| יפן (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Iapan (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| An tSeapáin (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Binaʼadaałtzózí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah (C,U,Navajo)
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| Chapan (C,U,Chamorro)
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| Chapón (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Djapan (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Dzapan nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Ġappun (C,U,Maltese)
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| Giapòn (C,U,Venetian)
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| Giapon (C,U,Piemontese)
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| Giappon (C,U,Ligurian)
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| Giappuni (C,U,Sicilian)
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| Giapun (C,U,Lombard)
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| Giapun (Romansh)
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| Gjapon (C,U,Friulian)
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| Gyapan (C,U,Akan)
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| Hapõ (C,U,Guarani)
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| Hapon (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Hapon (Ilocano)
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| Hapon (Cebuano)
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| Hapon (Pampanga)
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| Hapon (Papiamento)
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| Hapon (Waray (Philippines))
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| Hapon (Central Bikol)
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| Iapan (C,U,Anglo-Saxon)
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| Iāpana (C,U,Hawaiian)
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| Iapani (C,U,Samoan)
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| Iaponia (C,U,Latin)
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| i-Japan (C,U,Zulu)
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| IJapani (C,U,Xhosa)
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| IJapani (Zulu)
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| IJaphani (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| Jaapan (C,U,Estonian)
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| Jaappaan (C,U,Oromo)
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| Jabaan (C,U,Somali)
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| Jabbaan (C,U,Somali)
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| Jáhpan (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Japán (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Japana (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Japāna (C,U,Latvian)
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| Japána (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Japane (C,U,Sotho, Northern)
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| Japane (Southern Sotho)
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| Japang (C,U,Banjar)
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| Japang (Minangkabau)
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| Japani (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Japani (Finnish)
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| Japani (Greenlandic)
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| Japani (Swahili (generic))
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| Japanio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Japanska (C,U,Upper Sorbian)
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| Japańska (C,U,Lower Sorbian)
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| Japanujo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Japaun (C,U,Tetum)
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| Japó (C,U,Catalan)
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| J·apon (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Japoneja (C,U)
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| Japoni (C,U,Albanian)
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| Japonia (C,U,Polish)
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| Japonia (Romanian)
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| Japonia (Basque)
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| Japonia (Albanian)
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| Japonia (Ido)
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| Japonii (C,U,Veps)
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| Japonija (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Japonska (C,U,Slovene)
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| Japòńskô (C,U,Kashubian)
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| Japonsko (C,U,Slovak)
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| Japonsko (Czech)
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| Japonya (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Japonya (Turkish)
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| Japonya (Dimli)
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| Japounii (C,U)
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| Japu (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Japun (C,U,Kabyle)
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| Japůńijo (C,U,Silesian)
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| Japuonėjė (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Jepang (C,U,Sunda)
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| Jepang (Indonesian)
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| Jepang (Javanese)
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| Jepun (C,U,Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Jeupun (C,U,Achinese)
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| Ji̍t-pún (C,U,Chinese, Min Nan)
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| Nditbonj (C,U,Zhuang)
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| Ngi̍t-pún (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Nhật Bản (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Nihun (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Nihun (Ayamará)
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| Nĭk-buōng (C,U,Chinese, Min Dong)
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| Nipono (C,U,Maori)
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| Njabani (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Japani (C,U,Yoruba)
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| pongue (C,U)
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| Sapoŋ (C,U,Wolof)
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| Sapoo (C,U,Fulah)
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| Siapan (C,U,Welsh)
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| Siapan (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Siapani (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Tāpōnē (C,U,Tahitian)
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| Ubuyapani (C,U,Rundi)
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| Ubuyapani (Rwanda)
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| Ujapani (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Ниxуудин Нутг (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| Xapón - 日本 (C,U,Galician)
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| Xapon (C,U,Nahuatl)
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| Xapón (C,U,Asturian)
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| Xapón (Galician)
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| Yapan (C,U,Twi)
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| Yapän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Ýaponiýa (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Yaponiya (C,U,Uzbek)
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| Yaponiya (Japanese)
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| Yaponiya (Azerbaijani)
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| Yn Çhapaan (C,U,Gaelic, indigenous Manx)
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| Zapɔ́ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Zapɔ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Zapɔn (C,U,Bambara)
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| Zapöon (C,U,Sangho)
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| Япон (C,U,Kabardian)
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| Япон (Mongolian)
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| Япон (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| ᏣᏩᏂᏏ (C,U,Cherokee)
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| ஜப்பான் (C,U,Tamil)
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| جاپان (C,U,Pashto)
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| جاپان (Sindhi)
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| جاپان (Urdu)
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| जापान (C,U,Hindi)
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| जापान (Pali)
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| जापान (Nepali)
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| जापान (Bihari languages)
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| जापान (Newari)
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| 일본 (C,U,Korean)
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| Жапония (C,U,Romanian)
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| Жапония (Kazakh)
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| Жапония (Kyrgyz)
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| Жопун (C,U,Tajik)
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| Ιαπωνία (C,U,Greek)
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| Ниппон (C,U,Komi-Permyak)
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| Япони (C,U,Chuvash)
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| Япони (Chechen)
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| Япони (Western Mari)
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| ᨍᨛᨄ (C,U)
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| જાપાન (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ਜਪਾਨ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| იაპონია (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| იაპონია (Georgian)
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| ᓃᑉᐊᓐ (C,U,Inuktitut)
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| ಜಪಾನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ژاپون (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| Дьоппуон (C,U,Yakut)
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| نیہون (C,U,Urdu)
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| ജപ്പാൻ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| جپان (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| जपान (C,U,Marathi)
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| ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ (C,U,Lao)
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| ญี่ปุ่น (C,U,Thai)
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| ژاپۆن (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ژاپۆن (Central Kurdish)
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| جاپون (C,U,Mazanderani)
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| جاپون (Northern Luri)
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| اليابان (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| اليابان (Arabic)
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| Јапонија (C,U,Macedonian)
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| Ꙗпѡнїꙗ (C,U,Slavonic, Old Church)
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| জাপান (C,U,Bengali)
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| জাপান (Assamese)
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| জাপান (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| Японія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Японія (Rusyn, Ukrainian (language group))
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| Японія (Belarusian)
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| Япон Улас (C,U,Russia Buriat)
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| Японий (C,U)
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| ཇ་པཱན (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ޖަޕާނު (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| ជប៉ុន (C,U,Khmer)
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| ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| Јапан (C,U,Serbian)
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| ܝܦܢ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| Японмастор (C,U,Moksha)
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| Япония Мастор (C,U,Erzya)
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| ጃፓን (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጃፓን (Amharic)
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| ཉི་ཧོང་། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ଜାପାନ (C,U,Odia)
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| जपान् (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| יאַפּאַן (C,U,Yiddish)
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| Иапониа (C,U,Abkhaz)
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| יאפאן (C,U,Yiddish)
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| ประเทศญี่ปุ่น (C,U,Thai)
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| ژاپن (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ཇཱ་པཱན། (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ປະເທດຍີ່ປຸ່ນ (C,U,Lao)
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| Ճապոնիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ياپونىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ජපානය (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ଜାପାନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| རི་པིན་ (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ဂျပန် (C,U,Burmese)
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| జపాన్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ꏝꀪ (C,U)
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| ニホンコク (C,U,Japanese)
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| にほんこく (C,U,Japanese)
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| ニッポン (C,U,Japanese)
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| にっぽん (C,U,Japanese)
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| にほん (C,U,Japanese)
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| ニホン (C,U,Japanese)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Additional Parents: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Japan (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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first unified in 5th cen.; with expanded borders, 1910-1945 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| constitutional monarchy (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| empire (H) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Tokyo .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Japan, Tōkyō) [7004472] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1956 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Binaʼadaałtzózí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 1861060 |
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