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Barbados (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 10 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 13.1667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 059 32 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -59.5333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises island of the same name; originally inhabited by Arawaks; probably sighted by Portuguese; Spanish arrived in 1518, and by 1536 no Amerindians remained; English settlers arrived 17th century, and brought Africans here as slaves for sugar plantations; official language is English. |
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| Barbados (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Barbados (Tagalog)
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| Barbados (Maltese)
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| Barbados (Indonesian)
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| Barbados (Azerbaijani)
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| Barbados (Croatian)
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| Barbados (Bosnian)
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| Barbados (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Barbados (Danish)
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| Barbados (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Barbados (Finnish)
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| Barbados (Swedish)
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| Barbados (Polish)
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| Barbados (Portuguese)
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| Barbados (Romanian)
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| Barbados (Slovak)
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| Barbados (Slovene)
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| Barbados (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Barbados (Catalan)
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| Barbados (Basque)
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| Barbados (Aragonese)
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| Barbados (Welsh)
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| Barbados (Kurdish)
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| Barbados (German)
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| Barbados (Low German)
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| Barbados (Breton)
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| Barbados (Cornish)
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| Barbados (Czech)
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| Barbados (Dutch)
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| Barbados (Afrikaans)
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| Barbados (Galician)
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| Barbados (Icelandic)
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| Barbados (Faroese)
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| Barbados (Italian)
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| Barbados (Estonian)
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| Barbados (Greenlandic)
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| Barbados (Turkish)
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| Barbados (Occitan)
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| Barbados (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Barbados (Romansh)
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| Barbados (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Barbados (Norwegian)
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| Barbados (Northern Sami)
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| Barbados (Shona)
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| Barbados (Ido)
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| Barbados (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Barbade (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Барбадос (C,V,Tatar)
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| Барбадос (Bashkir)
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| Барбадос (Serbian)
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| Барбадос (Macedonian)
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| Барбадос (Chechen)
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| Барбадос (Mongolian)
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| Барбадос (Kazakh)
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| Барбадос (Bulgarian)
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| Барбадос (Russian-P,U)
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| Барбадос (Ukrainian)
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| Барбадос (Rusyn, Ukrainian (language group))
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| Барбадос (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Барбадос (Yakut)
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| Барбадос (Komi)
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| Барбадос (Moksha)
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| Барбадос (Russia Buriat)
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| Барбадос (Western Mari)
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| 巴巴多斯 (C,V,Chinese, Yue)
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| 巴巴多斯 (Chinese-P,U)
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| بربادوس (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| BRB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| BB (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO052 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Barbadian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| ברבדוס (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Baabados (C,U,O,Akan)
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| Baarbadoos (C,U,Somali)
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| Babadosi (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Babadosi (Swahili (generic))
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| Bác-ba-đốt (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Barabâda (C,U,Sangho)
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| Barabadosi (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Barɛbadɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Barbada (C,U,Occitan)
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| Barbâda (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Barbadas (C,U,Hausa)
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| Barbåde (C,U,Walloon)
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| Barbadeän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Barbadhos (C,U,Javanese)
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| Barbadi (C,U,Bambara)
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| Barbado (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Barbadoes (C,U)
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| Barbadoos (C,U,Fulah)
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| Bárbádọ̀s (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Barbadós (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Barbàdos (C,U,Piemontese)
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| Barbadosa (C,U,Latvian)
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| Barbadosas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Barbadosi (C,U,Albanian)
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| Barbados nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Barbadot (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Barbaduosos (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Barbadus (C,U,Tetum)
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| Barbady (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Barbata (C,U,Latin)
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| Barbaus (C,U,Extremaduran)
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| Barebade (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Barubadosi (C,U,Rundi)
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| Barubadosi (Rwanda)
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| Bhabhadosi (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Colony of Barbados (C,U)
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| Hashkʼaan Bikéyah (C,U,Navajo)
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| i-Barbados (C,U,Zulu)
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| IBhadosi (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| Lababad (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Orílẹ́ède Bábádósì (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pāpeitosi (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| बार्बाडोस (C,U,Marathi)
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| बार्बाडोस (Sanskrit)
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| बार्बाडोस (Kashmiri)
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| बार्बाडोस (Nepali)
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| बार्बाडोस (Newari)
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| பார்படோஸ் (C,U,Tamil)
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| باربادوس (C,U,Pashto)
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| باربادوس (Panjabi, Western)
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| باربادوس (Urdu)
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| باربادوس (Uyghur)
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| باربادوس (Persian-Farsi)
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| باربادوس (Arabic)
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| ประเทศบาร์เบโดส (C,U,Thai)
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| ਬਾਰਬਾਡੋਸ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| باربادۆس (C,U,Kurdish)
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| باربادۆس (Central Kurdish)
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| བར་བ་ཌོ་སི། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| বার্বাডোস (C,U,Bengali)
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| বার্বাডোস (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| Բարբադոս (C,U,Armenian)
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| 바베이도스 (C,U,Korean)
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| បារបាដូស (C,U,Khmer)
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| ባርቤዶስ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ባርቤዶስ (Amharic)
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| バルバドス (C,U,Japanese)
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| بارباڈوس (C,U,Urdu)
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| Барбадосин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| บาร์เบโดส (C,U,Thai)
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| Μπαρμπάντος (C,U,Greek)
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| ବାରବାଡସ (C,U,Odia)
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| ბარბადოსი (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| ბარბადოსი (Georgian)
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| பார்படோசு (C,U,Tamil)
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| ບາບາຄັອດ (C,U,Lao)
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| باربيدوس (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| बारबाडोस (C,U,Hindi)
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| ބާބަޑޮސް (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| ബർബാഡോസ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ബാര്ബഡോസ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| བཱརྦ་ཌོས྄། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ಬಾರ್ಬಡೋಸ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| బార్బడోస్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| බාර්බඩෝස් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| બાર્બાડોસ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| বারবাদোস (C,U,Bengali)
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| Барбадас (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ବାରବାଡୋସ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| Los Barbados (H,O)
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............ | named by Portuguese in 15th cen., for the bearded fig trees that grow here |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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attained self-government in 1961; gained independence from Britain on November 30, 1966 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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British, until 1961 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Bridgetown .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Barbados, Saint Michael parish) [1013028] |
| distinguished from .... |
Barbados .......... (island) |
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(World, North and Central America, Barbados) [7030373] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1966 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1966 |
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