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Suriname (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 04 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 4.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 056 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -56.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by Surinen peoples, who were driven out by other Amerindians before the 16th century; Spain claimed area 1593; Dutch settled, in dispute with British during the 17th century; Africans came as slaves in the 17th century, then indentured servants from China, Java, and India arrived; official language is Dutch, though Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese, Spanish, and the local language (Sranang Tongo) are also spoken. Dutch colony until 1954, then a Dutch constituent state until 1975, when Suriname became independent. |
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| Suriname (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Suriname (Rundi)
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| Suriname (Somali)
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| Suriname (Tagalog)
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| Suriname (Vietnamese)
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| Suriname (Indonesian)
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| Suriname (Javanese)
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| Suriname (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Suriname (Finnish)
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| Suriname (Portuguese)
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| Suriname (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Suriname (Akan)
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| Suriname (Hausa)
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| Suriname (German)
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| Suriname (Dutch-P,U)
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| Suriname (Afrikaans)
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| Suriname (French-P,U,N)
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| Suriname (Galician)
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| Suriname (Italian)
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| Suriname (Estonian)
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| Suriname (Greenlandic)
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| Suriname (Tetum)
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| Suriname (Luba-Katanga)
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| Suriname (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Suriname (North Ndebele)
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| Suriname (Pampanga)
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| Suriname (Northern Sami)
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| Suriname (Shona)
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| Suriname (Arpitan)
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| Suriname (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Suriname (Limburgan)
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| Republiek Suriname (C,V,O,Dutch,U,N)
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| Republiek van Suriname (C,V,Dutch,U)
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| Suriname, Republiek van (C,V,Dutch,U,N)
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| Republic of Suriname (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Suriname, Republic of (C,V,English,U,N)
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| République du Suriname (C,V,French,U,N)
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| República de Suriname (C,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| Surinam (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Surinam (Quechuan)
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| Surinam (Maltese)
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| Surinam (Ilocano)
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| Surinam (Croatian)
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| Surinam (Bosnian)
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| Surinam (Danish)
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| Surinam (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Surinam (Finnish)
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| Surinam (Swedish)
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| Surinam (Polish)
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| Surinam (Romanian)
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| Surinam (Slovak)
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| Surinam (Slovene)
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| Surinam (Spanish)
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| Surinam (Catalan)
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| Surinam (Basque)
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| Surinam (Aragonese)
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| Surinam (Asturian)
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| Surinam (Low German)
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| Surinam (Breton)
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| Surinam (Cornish)
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| Surinam (Czech)
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| Surinam (French)
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| Surinam (Galician)
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| Surinam (Faroese)
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| Surinam (Turkish)
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| Surinam (Occitan)
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| Surinam (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Surinam (Romansh)
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| Surinam (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Surinam (Norwegian)
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| Surinam (Swahili (generic))
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| Surinam (Ido)
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| Republic of Surinam (C,V)
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| Surinam, Republic of (C,V)
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| Суринам (C,O,Serbian)
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| Суринам (Macedonian)
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| Суринам (Bulgarian)
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| Суринам (Russian-P,U)
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| Суринам (Ukrainian)
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| Республика Суринам (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 苏里南 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 苏里南共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| سور يًام (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً سور يًام (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| SUR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| SR (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO740 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| NS (C,O,FIPS)
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| Surinamese (C,O,English,U,A)
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| סורינם (C,U,Hebrew )
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| i-Suriname (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Surinami (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Sorinam (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Sulinami (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Suranam (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Suranam (Scots Gaelic)
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| Surinaam (C,U,Fulah)
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| Surinaamu (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Súrínam (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Surinäm (C,U,Sangho)
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| Surinamɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Surinama (C,U,Latvian)
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| Surinamə (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Surinamas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Suriname nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Surinami (C,U,Bambara)
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| Surinami (Albanian)
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| Surinami (Sicilian)
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| Surinamia (C,U,Latin)
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| Surinamo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Surinamu (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Surinamu (Swahili (generic))
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| Surinän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Swrinam (C,U,Welsh)
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| Xu-ri-nam (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Xu-ri-nam (Suriname) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| សូរីណាម (C,U,Khmer)
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| Սուրինամ (C,U,Armenian)
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| סורינאם (C,U,Yiddish)
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| סורינאם (Hebrew )
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| ຊູລິນາມິ (C,U,Lao)
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| सुरिनाम (C,U,Marathi)
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| सुरिनाम (Sanskrit)
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| सुरिनाम (Hindi)
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| Σουρινάμ (C,U,Greek)
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| ሱሪናም (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ሱሪናም (Amharic)
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| سورینام (C,U,Urdu)
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| سورینام (Kurdish)
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| سورینام (Persian-Farsi)
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| 수리남 (C,U,Korean)
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| スリナム (C,U,Japanese)
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| สุรินัม (C,U,Thai)
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| سورينام (C,U,Pashto)
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| سورينام (Arabic)
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| სურინამი (C,U,Georgian)
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| சூரினாம் (C,U,Tamil)
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| ประเทศซูรินาม (C,U,Thai)
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| 蘇利南 (C,U,Chinese)
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| சுரிநாம் (C,U,Tamil)
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| સુરીનામ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Сурынам (C,U,Belarusian)
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| Сурінам (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ସୁରିନାମ (C,U,Odia)
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| सुरिनेम (C,U,Nepali)
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| సురినామ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಸುರಿನಾಮ (C,U,Kannada)
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| སུ་རི་ནཱམ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ซูรินาเม (C,U,Thai)
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| सूरीनाम (C,U,Hindi)
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| সুরিনাম (C,U,Bengali)
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| スリナム共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| സുറിനാം (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Суринами (C,U,Serbian)
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| Dutch Guiana (H,O)
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............ | 1667-1954 |
| Nederlandisch Guyana (H,O)
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............ | 1667-1954 |
| Nederlandsch Guyana (H,O)
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............ | 1667-1954 |
| Netherland Guiana (H,O)
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............ | 1667-1954 |
| Netherlands Guiana (H,O)
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............ | 1667-1954 |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence February 25, 1975 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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Dutch, 1667-1954 |
| territory (H) |
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Dutch, until 1975 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Paramaribo .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, South America, Suriname, Paramaribo) [7015387] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1975 |
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