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Vanuatu (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 16 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -16.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 167 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 167.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Settled by Melanesians 14th century BCE; charted by Portuguese P de Queirós 1606, French Bougainville 1768, and British Cook 1774; settled by British missionaries 19th century; placed under joint British/French control to stop slave trade to Australia 1887; official languages are English, French and Bislama (a form of pidgin English). |
Names: |
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| Vanuatu (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | since 1980 |
| Vanuatu (Somali)
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| Vanuatu (Tagalog)
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| Vanuatu (Vietnamese)
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| Vanuatu (Indonesian)
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| Vanuatu (Azerbaijani)
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| Vanuatu (Croatian)
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| Vanuatu (Bosnian)
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| Vanuatu (Latin)
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| Vanuatu (Latvian)
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| Vanuatu (Lingala)
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| Vanuatu (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Vanuatu (Danish)
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| Vanuatu (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Vanuatu (Finnish)
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| Vanuatu (Swedish)
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| Vanuatu (Polish)
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| Vanuatu (Portuguese)
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| Vanuatu (Romanian)
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| Vanuatu (Slovak)
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| Vanuatu (Slovene)
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| Vanuatu (Spanish)
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| Vanuatu (Catalan)
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| Vanuatu (Basque)
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| Vanuatu (Aragonese)
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| Vanuatu (Akan)
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| Vanuatu (Welsh)
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| Vanuatu (German)
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| Vanuatu (Low German)
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| Vanuatu (Albanian)
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| Vanuatu (Breton)
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| Vanuatu (Cornish)
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| Vanuatu (Czech)
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| Vanuatu (Dutch)
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| Vanuatu (Afrikaans)
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| Vanuatu (French-P,U,N)
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| Vanuatu (Galician)
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| Vanuatu (Faroese)
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| Vanuatu (Italian)
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| Vanuatu (Lithuanian)
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| Vanuatu (Estonian)
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| Vanuatu (Greenlandic)
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| Vanuatu (Bislama-P,U,N)
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| Vanuatu (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Vanuatu (Turkish)
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| Vanuatu (Occitan)
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| Vanuatu (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Vanuatu (Romansh)
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| Vanuatu (Kikuyu)
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| Vanuatu (Luba-Katanga)
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| Vanuatu (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Vanuatu (Norwegian)
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| Vanuatu (Pampanga)
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| Vanuatu (Northern Sami)
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| Vanuatu (Shona)
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| Vanuatu (Swahili (generic))
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| Vanuatu (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Vanuatu (Arpitan)
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| Vanuatu (Ido)
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| Vanuatu (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Ripablik blong Vanuatu (C,V,O,Bislama,U,N)
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| Republic of Vanuatu (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| République de Vanuatu (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Vanuatu (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Вануату (C,O,Serbian)
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| Вануату (Macedonian)
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| Вануату (Bulgarian)
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| Вануату (Russian-P,U)
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| Вануату (Ukrainian)
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| Вануату (Belarusian)
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| Республика Вануату (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 瓦努阿图 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 瓦努阿图共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| فاهواثو (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً فاهواثو (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| VUT (C,O,ISO3L)
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| VU (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO548 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| NH (C,O,FIPS)
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| Vanuatuan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Ni-Vanuatu (C,O)
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| ואנואטו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Banuwatu (C,U,Hausa)
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| Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides (C,U)
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| i-Vanuatu (C,U,Zulu)
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| New Hebrides Condominium (C,U)
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| Orílẹ́ède Faniatu (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Vanatú (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Vanawuwatu (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Vanoatò (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Vanuatú (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Va-nu-a-tu (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Vanúatú (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Vanuatü (C,U,Sangho)
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| Vanuatuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Vanuatu Cumhuriyeti (C,U,Turkish)
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| Vanuatu nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Vanuatuo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Vanuwatu (C,U,Rundi)
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| Vanuwatu (Bambara)
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| Vanwatu (C,U,Maltese)
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| Vhanuatu (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Wanuwaatuu (C,U,Fulah)
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| ونواتو (C,U,Pashto)
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| ונואטו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| วานูอาตู (C,U,Thai)
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| Βανουάτου (C,U,Greek)
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| वानुअतु (C,U,Hindi)
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| فانواتو (C,U,Arabic)
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| Վանուատու (C,U,Armenian)
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| 바누아투 (C,U,Korean)
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| ວານົວຕູ (C,U,Lao)
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| وانواتو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| வனுவாட்டு (C,U,Tamil)
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| ვანუატუ (C,U,Georgian)
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| ประเทศวานูอาตู (C,U,Thai)
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| ቫኑአቱ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቫኑአቱ (Amharic)
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| バヌアツ (C,U,Japanese)
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| فانوآتو (C,U,Arabic)
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| ۋانۇئاتۇ (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Ванату (C,U,Serbian)
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| Ванату (Macedonian)
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| وینوآٹو (C,U,Urdu)
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| ואמוטו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| भानुआतु (C,U,Nepali)
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| ڤانوواتوو (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ವನೌಟು (C,U,Kannada)
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| ভানুয়াটু (C,U,Bengali)
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| バヌアツ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| वन्वातु (C,U,Hindi)
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| ଭାନୁଆତୁ (C,U,Odia)
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| वानौटु (C,U,Marathi)
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| වනුවාටු (C,U,Sinhala)
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| వనౌటు (C,U,Telugu)
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| ཝ་ནུ་ཨ་ཐུ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| വന്വാത്തു (C,U,Malayalam)
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| વાનુઆતુ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| New Hebrides (H,V)
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............ | 1906-1980 |
| Nouvelles-Hébrides (H,V)
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............ | 1906-1980 |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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independent since July 30, 1980 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| inhabited region (C) |
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by 14th cen. BCE |
| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| condominium (H) |
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French/British, early 20th century |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Port Vila .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Oceania, Vanuatu, Shefa Province) [1098841] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1980 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1981 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2134431 |
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