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Malaŵi (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 30 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -13.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 034 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 34.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Nation is transversed by Great Rift Valley; settled by forebears of Twa and Fula 8000 BCE; Bantu arrived ca. 100; states founded by Bantu, Ngonde and Chikulamayembe 15th-18th centuries; visited by Livingstone 1891; anti-slavery Scottish missions founded 19th century; official language is English, national language is Chichewa, and Tombuka is also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Malaŵi (preferred,C,V,Chichewa-P,U)
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| Dziko la Malaŵi (C,V,O,Chichewa,U)
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| Malawi (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Malawi (Rundi)
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| Malawi (Tagalog)
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| Malawi (Maltese)
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| Malawi (Tumbuka)
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| Malawi (Vietnamese)
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| Malawi (Indonesian)
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| Malawi (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Malawi (Bambara)
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| Malawi (Lingala)
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| Malawi (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Malawi (Danish)
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| Malawi (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Malawi (Finnish)
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| Malawi (Swedish)
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| Malawi (Polish)
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| Malawi (Portuguese)
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| Malawi (Romanian)
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| Malawi (Slovak)
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| Malawi (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Malawi (Catalan)
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| Malawi (Basque)
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| Malawi (Akan)
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| Malawi (Welsh)
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| Malawi (Hausa)
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| Malawi (German)
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| Malawi (Low German)
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| Malawi (Breton)
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| Malawi (Cornish)
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| Malawi (Czech)
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| Malawi (Dutch)
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| Malawi (Afrikaans)
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| Malawi (French-P,U,N)
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| Malawi (Italian)
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| Malawi (Estonian)
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| Malawi (Greenlandic)
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| Malawi (Occitan)
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| Malawi (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Malawi (Romansh)
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| Malawi (Kikuyu)
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| Malawi (Luba-Katanga)
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| Malawi (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Malawi (North Ndebele)
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| Malawi (Norwegian)
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| Malawi (Pampanga)
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| Malawi (Northern Sami)
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| Malawi (Shona)
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| Malawi (Swahili (generic))
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| Malawi (Ido)
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| Malawi (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Malawi (Limburgan)
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| Republic of Malawi (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Republic of Malaŵi (C,V)
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| République du Malawi (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Malawi (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Malaui (C,O,Spanish)
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| Malaui (Aragonese)
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| Malaui (Asturian)
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| Malaui (Galician)
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| Malaui (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Малави (C,O,Tajik)
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| Малави (Serbian)
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| Малави (Macedonian)
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| Малави (Bulgarian)
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| Малави (Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Малави (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 马拉维 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 马拉维共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ملاوي (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً ملاوي (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| MWI (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO454 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| MI (C,O,FIPS)
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| Malawian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| מלאווי (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Mhaláiv (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Malawi (C,U,Zulu)
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| Malaawi (C,U,Somali)
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| Malaawi (Fulah)
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| Malaoì (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Malauí (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Malaui - Malawi (C,U,Galician)
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| Ma-la-uy (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ma-la-uy (Malawi) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Malavi (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Malavi (Croatian)
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| Malavi (Bosnian)
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| Malavi (Slovene)
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| Malavi (Albanian)
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| Malavi (Faroese)
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| Malavi (Turkish)
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| Malavi (Arpitan)
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| Malaví (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Malavia (C,U,Latin)
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| Malāvija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Malavio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Malavis (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Malaviyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Malawî (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Malawïi (C,U,Sangho)
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| Malawi nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Malevia (C,U,Albanian)
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| Orílẹ́ède Malawi (C,U,Yoruba)
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| मलावी (C,U,Marathi)
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| मलावी (Sanskrit)
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| मलावी (Hindi)
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| मलावी (Kashmiri)
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| マラウィ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Μαλάουι (C,U,Greek)
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| ประเทศมาลาวี (C,U,Thai)
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| Малаві (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Малаві (Belarusian)
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| მალავი (C,U,Georgian)
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| 말라위 (C,U,Korean)
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| مالاوی (C,U,Kurdish)
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| مالاوی (Persian-Farsi)
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| มาลาวี (C,U,Thai)
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| மலாவி (C,U,Tamil)
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| Մալավի (C,U,Armenian)
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| ማላዊ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ማላዊ (Amharic)
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| مالاۋى (C,U,Uyghur)
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| マラウイ (C,U,Japanese)
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| མཱ་ལཱ་ཝི། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| मालावी (C,U,Nepali)
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| ಮಲಾವಿ (C,U,Kannada)
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| మాలావి (C,U,Telugu)
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| மாலவி (C,U,Tamil)
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| മലാവി (C,U,Malayalam)
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| မာလာဝီ (C,U,Burmese)
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| માલાવી (C,U,Gujarati)
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| মালাউই (C,U,Bengali)
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| ମାଲୱି (C,U,Odia)
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| マラウイ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ملاوی (C,U,Urdu)
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| British Central Africa (H,V)
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............ | 1893-1907 |
| British Central Africa Protectorate (H,V)
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............ | 1893-1907 |
| Nyasaland (H,V)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1964 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1966 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1891-1964 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Lilongwe .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Africa, Malaŵi, Lilongwe) [1091067] |
| historical connection .... |
Maravi .......... (historical region) |
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(World, Africa, Malaŵi) [6003714] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1964 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1964 |
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