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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 45 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -51.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 059 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -59.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: A British self-governing colony, comprising the Falkland Islands and several other islands administered from the Falkland Islands; Argentina made an unsuccessful attempt to claim the islands in 1982, leading to the brief Falklands War with Great Britain. Language is English. |
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| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (preferred,C,V)
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| Falkland Islands (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Falkland Islands (Maltese)
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| Falkland Islands (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Falkland Islands (North Ndebele)
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| Colony of the Falkland Islands (C,V,English)
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| Colony of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies (C,V)
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| Malvinas Islands (C,V)
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| Falklands (C,O)
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| Malvinas (C,O)
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| Islas Malvinas (C,O,Spanish)
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| FLK (C,O,ISO3L)
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| FK (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO238 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Âzûâ tî Mälüîni (C,U,O,Sangho)
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| Bisanga bya Maluni (C,U,Lingala)
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| Bizinga by'eFalikalandi (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Duuɗe Falkland (C,U,Fulah)
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| Falkland Adaları (C,U,Turkish)
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| Falklandeilande (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Falklandeilanden (C,U,Dutch)
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| Falklandi (C,U,Croatian)
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| Falklandinsaaret (C,U,Finnish)
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| Falklandinseln (C,U,German)
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| Falklandi qeqertaq (C,U,Greenlandic)
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| Falklandi saared (C,U,Estonian)
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| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (C,U,English)
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| Falklando salos (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Falklandseyjar (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Falklandské ostrovy (C,U,Slovak)
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| Falklandské ostrovy (Czech)
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| Falklandski otoki (C,U,Slovene)
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| Falklandsöarna (C,U,Swedish)
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| Falklandsøerne (C,U,Danish)
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| Falklandsøyane (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Falklandsøyene (C,U,Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Falklandsoyggjarnar (C,U,Faroese)
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| Falklandsullot (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Falkland-szigetek (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Falkland ƒudomekpowo nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Falklandy (C,U,Polish)
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| Fɔlkman Aeland (C,U,Akan)
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| Folkland Adaları (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Folklandska Ostrva (C,U,Bosnian)
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| Folklenda salas (C,U,Latvian)
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| i-Falkland Islands (C,U,Zulu)
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| Îles Falkland (C,U,French)
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| Îles Malouines (C,U,French)
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| Ilhas Malvinas (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Illas Malvinas (C,U,Galician)
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| Illes Malvines (C,U,Catalan)
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| Inizi Falkland (C,U,Breton)
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| Inslas dal Falkland (C,U,Romansh)
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| Insulele Falkland (C,U,Romanian)
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| Islas Falkland (Malvinas) (C,U,Spanish)
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| Isole Falkland (C,U,Italian)
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| Izinga rya Filikilandi (C,U,Rundi)
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| Jaziiradaha Fooklaan (C,U,Somali)
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| Kepulauan Malvinas (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Lutanda lua Maluni (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Maluwini Gun (C,U,Bambara)
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| Malvinak (C,U,Basque)
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| Nosy Falkand (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Oileáin Fháclainne (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Orílẹ́ède Etikun Fakalandi (C,U,Yoruba)
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| ʻOtumotu Fokuleni (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Quần Đảo Falkland (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Tsibiran Falkilan (C,U,Hausa)
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| Visiwa vya Falkland (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Visiwa vya Falkland (Swahili (generic))
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| Ynysoedd y Falkland (C,U,Welsh)
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| Zvitsuwa zveFalklands (C,U,Shona)
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| Фолклендски острови (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| ഫാക്ക്ലാന്റ് ഐലന്റ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ஃபாக்லாந்து தீவுகள் (C,U,Tamil)
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| 포클랜드 제도 (C,U,Korean)
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| Фолкландски Острови (C,U,Macedonian)
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| فاکلینڈ آئلینڈز (C,U,Urdu)
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| Фолклендські острови (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ཕལྐ་ལནྜ་གླིང་ཕྲན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| جزر فوكلاند (C,U,Arabic)
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| ფალკლენდის კუნძულები (C,U,Georgian)
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| የፎልክላንድ ደሴቶች (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| የፎልክላንድ ደሴቶች (Amharic)
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| Фолклендские о-ва (C,U,Russian)
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| ଫଲ୍କଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ ଦ୍ବୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ (C,U,Odia)
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| หมู่เกาะฟอล์กแลนด์ (C,U,Thai)
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| ફૉકલૅંડ આઇલૅંડ્સ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| איי פוקלנד (C,U,Hebrew )
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| फकल्याण्ड टापु (C,U,Nepali)
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| फॉकलंड बेटे (C,U,Marathi)
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| Фокландска острва (C,U,Serbian)
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| ဖောက်ကလန် ကျွန်းစု (C,U,Burmese)
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| फ़ॉकलैंड द्वीप (C,U,Hindi)
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| ෆෝක්ලන්ත දූපත් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ফকল্যান্ড দ্বীপপুঞ্জ (C,U,Bengali)
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| ಫ್ಹಾಕ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು (C,U,Kannada)
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| ఫాక్ లేండ్ దీవులు (C,U,Telugu)
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| Νήσοι Φώκλαντ (C,U,Greek)
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| جزایر فالکلند (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Фолклэндскія астравы (C,U,Belarusian)
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| フォークランド諸島 (C,U,Japanese)
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Place Types: |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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claimed by Britain since 16th cen., with settlements in 18th cen., & continuous occupation since 1833 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| colony (C) |
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| dependent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Stanley .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, South America, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)) [1024186] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Colony of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................................................. |
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 666-667 |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas).......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 3474414 |
| Falkland ƒudomekpowo nutome.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 3474414 |
| Orílẹ́ède Etikun Fakalandi.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 3474414 |
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