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Palau (nation) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 06 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 6.0000 decimal degrees |
Long: 134 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 134.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Early inhabitants were Micronesians (Malay, Melanesian, and Polynesian); Spanish visited islands in 1543, retained control until they were sold to Germany 1899; after WW II, became part of US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; languages are English, Palaun (related to Indonesian), and Sonsorolese-Tobian. |
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Belau (preferred,C,V,Palauan-P,U,N)
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Belau (Estonian)
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Belau (Occitan)
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Beluu er a Belau (C,V,O,Palauan,U,N)
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Belu’u er a Belau (C,V)
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Palau (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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Palau (Somali)
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Palau (Sangho)
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Palau (Maltese)
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Palau (Vietnamese)
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Palau (Ilocano)
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Palau (Indonesian)
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Palau (Croatian)
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Palau (Bosnian)
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Palau (Latvian)
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Palau (Lingala)
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Palau (Magyar (Hungarian))
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Palau (Danish)
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Palau (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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Palau (Finnish)
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Palau (Swedish)
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Palau (Polish)
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Palau (Portuguese)
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Palau (Romanian)
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Palau (Slovak)
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Palau (Slovene)
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Palau (Spanish-P,U,N)
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Palau (Basque)
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Palau (Aragonese)
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Palau (Akan)
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Palau (Irish Gaelic)
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Palau (Welsh)
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Palau (Hausa)
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Palau (German)
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Palau (Low German)
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Palau (Albanian)
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Palau (Breton)
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Palau (Cornish)
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Palau (Czech)
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Palau (Dutch)
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Palau (Afrikaans)
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Palau (Galician)
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Palau (Faroese)
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Palau (Italian)
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Palau (Lithuanian)
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Palau (Greenlandic)
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Palau (Turkish)
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Palau (Occitan)
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Palau (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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Palau (Romansh)
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Palau (Kikuyu)
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Palau (Luba-Katanga)
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Palau (Malay (macrolanguage))
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Palau (North Ndebele)
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Palau (Norwegian)
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Palau (Pampanga)
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Palau (Northern Sami)
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Palau (Shona)
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Palau (Swahili (generic))
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Palau (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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Palau (Ido)
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Republic of Palau (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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Republic of Belau (C,V,English,U,N)
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Palaos (C,O,Spanish)
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Palaos (French-P,U,N)
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Palaos (Arpitan)
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République des Palaos (C,O,French,U,N)
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República de Palau (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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República de Palau (Catalan)
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Палау (C,O,Serbian)
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Палау (Macedonian)
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Палау (Bulgarian)
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Палау (Russian-P,U)
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Палау (Ukrainian)
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Республика Палау (C,O,Russian,U)
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帕劳 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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帕劳共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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بالاو (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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جُهور ةً بالاو (C,O,Arabic,U)
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PLW (C,O,ISO3L)
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PW (C,O,ISO2L)
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ISO585 (C,O,ISO3N)
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PS (C,O,FIPS)
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Pelauan (C,O,English,U,A)
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Belaŭo (C,U,Esperanto)
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Belavia (C,U,Latin)
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i-Palau (C,U,Zulu)
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Orílẹ́ède Paalu (C,U,Yoruba)
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Palá (C,U,Icelandic)
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Palao (C,U,Malagasy)
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Palau - Belau (C,U,Galician)
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Palau nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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Palaŭo (C,U,Esperanto)
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Palauvuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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Palav (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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Palaw (C,U,Tagalog)
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Palawu (C,U,Rundi)
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Palawu (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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Palawu (Bambara)
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Palawu (Fulah)
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パラオ (C,U,Japanese)
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פלאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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ประเทศปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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팔라우 (C,U,Korean)
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帛琉 (C,U,Chinese)
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پالاو (C,U,Pashto)
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پالاو (Kurdish)
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สาธารณรัฐปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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Παλάου (C,U,Greek)
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പലാവു (C,U,Malayalam)
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პალაუ (C,U,Georgian)
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பாலோ (C,U,Tamil)
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ፓላው (C,U,Tigrinya)
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ፓላው (Amharic)
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پالائو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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ପାଲାଉ (C,U,Odia)
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پلاؤ (C,U,Urdu)
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পালাউ (C,U,Bengali)
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పలావు (C,U,Telugu)
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પલાઉ (C,U,Gujarati)
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ปาเลา (C,U,Thai)
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པ་ལཽ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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Պալաու (C,U,Armenian)
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ಪಲಾವು (C,U,Kannada)
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Палаў (C,U,Belarusian)
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पलाउ (C,U,Nepali)
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පලාවු (C,U,Sinhala)
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पलाऊ (C,U,Marathi)
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पलाऊ (Hindi)
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פאלאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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Pelew (H,V)
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Pelew Islands (H,V)
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Additional Parents: |
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Palau (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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nation (preferred, C) |
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became independent in 1994 |
primary political unit (C) |
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self-governing since 1980 |
republic (C) |
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former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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dependent state (H) |
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controlled by USA after WW II, internally self-governing 1980, gained control over foreign policy except defense 1986 |
controlled region (H) |
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Spanish, 16th cen.-1899; German, 1899-1914 |
mandate (H) |
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Japanese, 1919-1944 |
trust territory (H) |
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as part of US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1947-1980 |
freely associated state (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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capital is .... |
Melekeiok .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Palau, Melekeok) [1099392] |
member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1994 |
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