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Canada (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 60 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 60.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 100 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -100.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by ancestors of Amerindians and Inuit in Upper Palaeolithic or earlier; evolved diverse cultures over vast area; Norse settlements by 1000 CE; English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese claimed territory from the 16th century; under British control from 1759; official languages are English and French. |
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| Canada (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | derived from Amerindian word for "settlement" |
| Canada (Danish)
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| Canada (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Canada (Romanian)
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| Canada (Welsh)
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| Canada (Dutch)
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| Canada (French-P,U,N)
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| Canada (Italian)
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| Canada (Greenlandic)
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| Canada (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Canada (Romansh)
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| Canada (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Kanada (C,O,Rundi)
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| Kanada (Somali)
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| Kanada (Malagasy)
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| Kanada (Maltese)
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| Kanada (Indonesian)
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| Kanada (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Kanada (Azerbaijani)
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| Kanada (Bambara)
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| Kanada (Croatian)
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| Kanada (Bosnian)
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| Kanada (Lingala)
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| Kanada (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kanada (Finnish)
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| Kanada (Swedish)
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| Kanada (Polish)
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| Kanada (Slovak)
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| Kanada (Slovene)
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| Kanada (Basque)
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| Kanada (Akan)
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| Kanada (Hausa)
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| Kanada (German-P,U,N)
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| Kanada (Low German)
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| Kanada (Albanian)
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| Kanada (Breton)
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| Kanada (Czech)
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| Kanada (Afrikaans)
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| Kanada (Icelandic)
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| Kanada (Faroese)
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| Kanada (Lithuanian)
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| Kanada (Estonian)
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| Kanada (Turkish)
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| Kanada (Kikuyu)
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| Kanada (Luba-Katanga)
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| Kanada (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Kanada (Shona)
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| Kanada (Swahili (generic))
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| Canadá (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Canadá (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Canadá (Galician)
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| Канада (C,V,Serbian)
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| Канада (Macedonian)
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| Канада (Kazakh)
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| Канада (Bulgarian)
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| Канада (Russian-P,U)
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| Канада (Ukrainian)
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| Канада (Belarusian)
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| 加拿大 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| ويدا (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| CAN (C,O,ISO3L)
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| CA (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO124 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Canadian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| קנדה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Canadà (C,U,Catalan)
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| Canadà (Occitan)
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| Ca-na-đa (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Canada (Gia Nã Đại) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ceanada (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Canada (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kanāda (C,U,Latvian)
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| Kanáda (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Kanadaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Kanadäa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Kanada nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Kanado (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Kānata (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Kanuadu (C,U)
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| Khanada (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Orílẹ́ède Kánádà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Καναδάς (C,U,Greek)
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| แคนาดา (C,U,Thai)
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| کانادا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| カナダ (C,U,Japanese)
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| کاناډا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ካናዳ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ካናዳ (Amharic)
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| कनाडा (C,U,Hindi)
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| கனடா (C,U,Tamil)
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| កាណាដា (C,U,Khmer)
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| كندا (C,U,Arabic)
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| კანადა (C,U,Georgian)
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| ཀེ་ན་ཌ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| 캐나다 (C,U,Korean)
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| ການາດາ (C,U,Lao)
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| Կանադա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ကနေဒါ (C,U,Burmese)
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| क्यानाडा (C,U,Nepali)
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| કેનેડા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| කැනඩාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ಕೆನಡಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| कॅनडा (C,U,Marathi)
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| ཁེ་ན་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| কানাডা (C,U,Bengali)
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| کانەدا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| కెనడా (C,U,Telugu)
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| کینیڈا (C,U,Urdu)
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| കാനഡ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| କାନାଡା (C,U,Odia)
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| Canada, Dominion of (H,V)
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............ | after 1867 |
| Dominion of Canada (H,V)
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............ | after 1867 |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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confederation established in 1867; gained control of its constitution from Britain in 1982 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Ottawa .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Canada, Ontario) [7013088] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1931 |
| member of .... |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029610] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
| successor of .... |
British North America .......... (former territory/colony/dependent state) |
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(World, North and Central America) [8711660] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Subject: ..... |
[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP] |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 568-569 |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 578 |
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Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 112-113 |
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Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-) |
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Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 148-150 |
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Cassell's German Dictionary (1982) 337 |
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 784 ff.; II, 784-786 |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 6251999 |
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Getty Vocabulary Program rules |
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ISO Country Codes (1996) 12 |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 777 |
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Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.) |
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National Archives of Canada database (1987-) |
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NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -562063 |
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NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998) |
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NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) accessed 01/20/99 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 44 |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 210-213 |
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Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada |
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