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Grenada (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 12 07 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 12.1167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 061 40 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -61.6667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Originally inhabited by Arawaks, who were wiped out by the Caribs; sighted by Columbus in 1498; Caribs were ousted by French settlers from Martinique in mid-17th century; ceded to Britain in 1783; Africans were brought here as slaves, emancipated in 1833; official language is English, though French patois is also widely spoken. |
Names: |
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| Grenada (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Grenada (Wolof)
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| Grenada (Tagalog)
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| Grenada (Nauruan)
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| Grenada (Maltese)
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| Grenada (Vietnamese)
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| Grenada (Ilocano)
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| Grenada (Indonesian)
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| Grenada (Croatian)
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| Grenada (Bosnian)
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| Grenada (Latvian)
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| Grenada (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Grenada (Danish)
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| Grenada (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Grenada (Finnish)
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| Grenada (Swedish)
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| Grenada (Polish)
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| Grenada (Romanian)
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| Grenada (Slovak)
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| Grenada (Slovene)
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| Grenada (Catalan)
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| Grenada (Basque)
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| Grenada (Aragonese)
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| Grenada (Akan)
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| Grenada (Irish Gaelic)
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| Grenada (Welsh)
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| Grenada (Kurdish)
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| Grenada (German)
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| Grenada (Low German)
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| Grenada (Albanian)
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| Grenada (Breton)
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| Grenada (Czech)
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| Grenada (Dutch)
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| Grenada (Afrikaans)
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| Grenada (Icelandic)
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| Grenada (Faroese)
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| Grenada (Italian)
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| Grenada (Piemontese)
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| Grenada (Lithuanian)
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| Grenada (Estonian)
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| Grenada (Greenlandic)
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| Grenada (Turkish)
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| Grenada (Occitan)
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| Grenada (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Grenada (Romansh)
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| Grenada (Kikuyu)
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| Grenada (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Grenada (North Ndebele)
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| Grenada (Norwegian)
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| Grenada (Pampanga)
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| Grenada (Northern Sami)
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| Grenada (Shona)
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| Grenada (Swahili (generic))
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| Grenada (Ido)
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| Grenada, Colony of (C,V)
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| Colony of Grenada (C,V)
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| Grenade (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Granada (C,O,Nahuatl)
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| Granada (Portuguese)
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| Granada (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Granada (Asturian)
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| Granada (Galician)
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| Granada (Tetum)
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| Granada (Turkish)
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| Isle of Spice (C,V)
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| Гренада (C,O,Tatar)
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| Гренада (Tajik)
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| Гренада (Bashkir)
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| Гренада (Serbian)
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| Гренада (Macedonian)
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| Гренада (Chechen)
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| Гренада (Kazakh)
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| Гренада (Kyrgyz)
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| Гренада (Bulgarian)
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| Гренада (Russian-P,U)
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| Гренада (Ukrainian)
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| Гренада (Yakut)
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| Гренада (Komi)
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| Гренада (Moksha)
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| Гренада (Russia Buriat)
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| 格林纳达 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| غرًياد (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| GRD (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GD (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO308 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GJ (C,O,FIPS)
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| State of Grenada (C,V)
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| Grenadian (C,O)
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| Granadian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Гренадæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Garnaad (C,U,Fulah)
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| Gelenadɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gerenada (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gerenada (Rwanda)
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| Giranaadaa (C,U,Oromo)
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| Giriinaada (C,U,Somali)
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| Girnada (C,U,Hausa)
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| Granada - Grenada (C,U,Galician)
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| Granadi (C,U,Bambara)
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| Granata (C,U,Latin)
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| Greanáda (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Greanada (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Grenaada (C,U,Northern Frisian)
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| Grenad (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Grenad (Veps)
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| Grẹ̀nádà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Grenâda (C,U,Sangho)
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| Grenâda (Arpitan)
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| Grê-na-đa (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Grenāda (C,U,Latvian)
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| Grénada (C,U,Sunda)
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| Grenada nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Grenadeän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Grenado (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Grenady (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Grenayd (C,U,Cornish)
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| Grinada (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Gurenada (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gwzlinznazdaz (C,U,Zhuang)
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| IGelenada (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| i-Grenada (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kelenatā (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngelenade (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Genada (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qrenada (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| گرېنادا (C,U,Pashto)
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| گرېنادا (Uyghur)
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| جرينادا (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| جرينادا (Arabic)
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| グレナダ (C,U,Japanese)
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| גרנדה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| গ্রানাডা (C,U,Bengali)
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| گرانادا (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| گرانادا (Persian-Farsi)
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| גרנאדה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ग्रेनेडा (C,U,Marathi)
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| ग्रेनेडा (Hindi)
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| ग्रेनेडा (Newari)
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| 그레나다 (C,U,Korean)
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| গ্রেনাডা (C,U,Bengali)
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| গ্রেনাডা (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| غرينادا (C,U,Arabic)
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| გრენადა (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| გრენადა (Georgian)
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| گرنادا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ग्रिनाडा (C,U,Nepali)
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| Гренадин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| ग्रेनाडा (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| ग्रेनाडा (Hindi)
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| ग्रेनाडा (Pali)
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| ग्रेनाडा (Nepali)
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| கிரனெடா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ግሬናዳ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ግሬናዳ (Amharic)
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| ਗ੍ਰੇਨਾਡਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| 格林納達 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| ಗ್ರೆನಾಡ (C,U,Kannada)
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| گریناڈا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| گریناڈا (Urdu)
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| ግረነይዳ (C,U,Amharic)
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| ଗ୍ରେନେଡ଼ା (C,U,Odia)
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| ގެރެންޑާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| Гренад улс (C,U,Mongolian)
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| ဂရီနေဒါနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| கிரெனடா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Ґренада (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ประเทศเกรเนดา (C,U,Thai)
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| گرینادا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| گرینادا (Central Kurdish)
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| གི་རི་ན་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Γρενάδα (C,U,Greek)
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| Գրենադա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Гренаде (C,U)
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| غرناطہ (C,U,Urdu)
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| ಗ್ರೆನೆಡಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| เกรเนดา (C,U,Thai)
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| ග්රැනඩාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| Грэнада (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ଗ୍ରେନାଡା (C,U,Odia)
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| ગ્રેનેડા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ഗ്രനേഡ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| గ్రెనెడా (C,U,Telugu)
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| གྷ་རི་ན་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Concepción (H,V)
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............ | named by Columbus in 1498; later renamed most likely by Spanish |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained full independence from Britain in 1974 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Saint George's .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Grenada, Saint George) [1016587] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1974 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1974 |
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