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Minas Gerais (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 18 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -18.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 044 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -44.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Name means "general mines"; first explored for gold in 17th cen. & has remained a principal source for precious metals & gems; S & E portions have large areas of tropical forests; economy based largely on iron-ore, chemical & steel processing. |
Names: |
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| Minas Gerais (preferred,C,V,Spanish)
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| Minas Gerais (Portuguese)
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| Estado do Minas Gerais (C,V)
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| Minas Gerais, Estado de (C,V)
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| Minas Geraes (C,V)
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| Estado de Minas Gerais (C,U,O,Spanish)
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| BR15 (C,U,FIPS)
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| Minas (C,U)
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| Civitas Minarum Generalium (C,U,Latin)
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| Minas Geraisi osariik (C,U,Estonian)
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| Minas Gerais suyu (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Minas-Ĝerajso (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Minas-Jerais (C,U,Uzbek)
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| Minas Xerais (C,U,Galician)
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| Minasžeraisa (C,U,Latvian)
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| Minas Žeraisas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Stato di Minas Gerais (C,U,Italian)
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| མི་ནས་ཞེ་རའིས་ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ミナスジェライス州 (C,U,Japanese)
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| Минас-Жерайс (C,U,Russian)
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| Минас-Жерайс (Kazakh)
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| Минас-Жерайс (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| مناس گیرائس (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| মিনাস জেরায়িস (C,U,Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| Минас Жерайс (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Минас Жерайс (Tajik)
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| Μίνας Ζεράις (C,U,Greek)
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| Мінас-Жерайс (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| מינאס זראיס (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Մինաս Ժերաիս (C,U,Armenian)
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| मिनास जेरायज़ (C,U,Hindi)
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| 米纳斯吉拉斯州 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Минаш Жераис (C,U,Macedonian)
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| Штат Мінас-Жэрайс (C,U,Belarusian)
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| மினாஸ் ஜெரைசு (C,U,Tamil)
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| میناس گیرائس (C,U,Urdu)
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| ميناس جرايس (C,U,Arabic)
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| รัฐมีนัสเชไรส์ (C,U,Thai)
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| میناس گرایس (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| მინას-ჟერაისი (C,U,Georgian)
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| मिनास जेराईस (C,U,Marathi)
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| Минас Жераис (C,U,Serbian)
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| 미나스제라이스 주 (C,U,Korean)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Additional Parents: |
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Sudeste (region (geographic)) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| state (preferred, C) |
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since 1891 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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| mining center (C) |
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| agricultural land (C) |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Civitas Minarum Generalium.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 3457153 |
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