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Kiribati (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 05 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -5.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 170 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -170.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises 33 coral islands; settled by Austronesian-speakers before the 1st century BCE; Fijans and Tongans arrived in the 14th century; Spanish landed here in the 16th century; visited by British and American whalers 18th-19th centuries; part of British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1915; official language is English, though Gilbertese (a Micronesian dialect) is a main language. |
Names: |
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| Kiribati (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Kiribati (Rundi)
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| Kiribati (Somali)
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| Kiribati (Tagalog)
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| Kiribati (Sangho)
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| Kiribati (Malagasy)
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| Kiribati (Maltese)
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| Kiribati (Uzbek)
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| Kiribati (Vietnamese)
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| Kiribati (Indonesian)
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| Kiribati (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Kiribati (Gilbertese-P,U)
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| Kiribati (Azerbaijani)
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| Kiribati (Bambara)
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| Kiribati (Croatian)
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| Kiribati (Bosnian)
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| Kiribati (Latin)
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| Kiribati (Latvian)
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| Kiribati (Lingala)
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| Kiribati (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kiribati (Danish)
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| Kiribati (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Kiribati (Finnish)
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| Kiribati (Swedish)
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| Kiribati (Polish)
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| Kiribati (Portuguese)
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| Kiribati (Romanian)
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| Kiribati (Slovak)
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| Kiribati (Slovene)
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| Kiribati (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Kiribati (Catalan)
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| Kiribati (Basque)
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| Kiribati (Aragonese)
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| Kiribati (Akan)
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| Kiribati (Welsh)
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| Kiribati (Hausa)
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| Kiribati (German)
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| Kiribati (Low German)
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| Kiribati (Albanian)
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| Kiribati (Breton)
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| Kiribati (Cornish)
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| Kiribati (Czech)
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| Kiribati (Dutch)
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| Kiribati (Afrikaans)
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| Kiribati (French-P,U,N)
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| Kiribati (Galician)
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| Kiribati (Faroese)
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| Kiribati (Italian)
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| Kiribati (Sicilian)
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| Kiribati (Estonian)
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| Kiribati (Greenlandic)
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| Kiribati (Turkish)
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| Kiribati (Occitan)
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| Kiribati (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Kiribati (Romansh)
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| Kiribati (Kikuyu)
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| Kiribati (Luba-Katanga)
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| Kiribati (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Kiribati (Norwegian)
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| Kiribati (Pampanga)
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| Kiribati (Northern Sami)
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| Kiribati (Shona)
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| Kiribati (Swahili (generic))
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| Kiribati (Arpitan)
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| Kiribati (Ido)
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| Kiribati (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Republic of Kiribati (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Kiribati, Repubic of (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Ribaberiki Kiribati (C,V,O,Gilbertese,U)
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| République de Kiribati (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Kiribati (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Kiribasi (C,O)
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| Кирибати (C,O,Serbian)
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| Кирибати (Macedonian)
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| Кирибати (Bulgarian)
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| Кирибати (Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Кирибати (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 基里巴斯 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 基里巴斯共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| نيرًبات (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً نيرًباس (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| KIR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| KI (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO296 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| KR (C,O,FIPS)
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| I-Kiribati (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Ciribeas (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Kiribati (C,U,Zulu)
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| Karibati (C,U,Czech)
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| Khiribati (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Kilipasi (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Kiribari (C,U,Fulah)
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| Kiribas (C,U,Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Kiribat (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Kíribatí (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Ki-ri-ba-ti (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Kiribati nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Kiribatis (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Kiribato (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Kiribatuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Kiribès (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Orílẹ́ède Kiribati (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qiribati (C,U,Albanian)
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| Quiribati (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Quiribati - Kiribati (C,U,Galician)
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| கிரிபடி (C,U,Tamil)
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| Κιριμπάτι (C,U,Greek)
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| किरिबाटी (C,U,Marathi)
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| किरिबाटी (Sanskrit)
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| किरिबाटी (Nepali)
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| كيريباس (C,U,Arabic)
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| كيريباتي (C,U,Arabic)
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| კირიბატი (C,U,Georgian)
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| কিরিবাস (C,U,Bengali)
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| គិរិបាទី (C,U,Khmer)
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| ኪሪባቲ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ኪሪባቲ (Amharic)
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| کېريباتي (C,U,Pashto)
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| キリバス (C,U,Japanese)
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| คิริบาส (C,U,Thai)
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| 키리바시 (C,U,Korean)
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| สาธารณรัฐคิริบาส (C,U,Thai)
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| Кірібаті (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Կիրիբատի (C,U,Armenian)
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| קיריבטי (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Кірибаті (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ประเทศคิริบาส (C,U,Thai)
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| കിരീബാസ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ຄີລິບາດ (C,U,Lao)
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| کیریباتی (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| קיריבאטי (C,U,Hebrew )
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| کیریباس (C,U,Kurdish)
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| కిరిబాటి (C,U,Telugu)
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| किरीबाटी (C,U,Marathi)
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| കിരിബാത്തി (C,U,Malayalam)
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| କିରିବାଟୀ (C,U,Odia)
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| 키리바티 (C,U,Korean)
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| কিরিবাতি (C,U,Bengali)
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| Кірыбаці (C,U,Belarusian)
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| کریباتی (C,U,Urdu)
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| کریباتی (Persian-Farsi)
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| किरिबाती (C,U,Hindi)
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| キリバス共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| કિરિબાટી (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ཀི་རི་བཱ་ཏི། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ಕಿರಿಬಾತಿ (C,U,Kannada)
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| Gilbert Islands (H,O)
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............ | named for Captain Thomas Gilbert, late 18th century |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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self-governing since 1971; independent since July 12, 1979 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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British, 19th century-1979 |
| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1892-1915 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
South Tarawa .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Kiribati, Tarawa) [7593837] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1979 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1999 |
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