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Dominica (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 15 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 15.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 061 20 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -61.3333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises a mountainous island of the same name; earliest known inhabitants were Arawaks, later driven out by Caribs; sighted by Columbus in 1493; settled by French 18th century; awarded to Britain 1783; Caribs died or were deported; Africans brought as slaves in 18th century; official language is English, though French is also widely spoken. |
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| Dominica (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | named by Columbus in 1493, after the day of the week (Sunday) on which he sighted it |
| Dominica (Vietnamese)
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| Dominica (Danish)
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| Dominica (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Dominica (Finnish)
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| Dominica (Swedish)
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| Dominica (Portuguese)
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| Dominica (Romanian)
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| Dominica (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Dominica (Catalan)
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| Dominica (Aragonese)
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| Dominica (Asturian)
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| Dominica (Welsh)
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| Dominica (German)
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| Dominica (Low German)
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| Dominica (Breton)
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| Dominica (Dutch)
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| Dominica (Galician)
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| Dominica (Italian)
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| Dominica (Estonian)
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| Dominica (Greenlandic)
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| Dominica (Scots)
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| Dominica (Occitan)
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| Dominica (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Dominica (Romansh)
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| Dominica (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Dominica (Norwegian)
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| Dominica (Pampanga)
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| Dominica (Northern Sami)
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| Dominica (Shona)
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| Dominica (Swahili (generic))
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| Dominica (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Dominca, Commonwealth of (C,V)
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| Commonwealth of Dominica (C,V,O,English)
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| Dominique (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Dominique, Commonwealth de (C,V,French,U)
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| Commonwealth de Dominique (C,O,French,U)
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| Dominique, Commonwealth de la (C,V,French,U)
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| Commonwealth de la Dominique (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Dominica, Commonwealth de (C,V,Spanish,U)
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| Commonwealth de Dominica (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Доминика (C,O,Tatar)
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| Доминика (Bashkir)
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| Доминика (Serbian)
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| Доминика (Macedonian)
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| Доминика (Chechen)
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| Доминика (Kazakh)
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| Доминика (Kyrgyz)
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| Доминика (Bulgarian)
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| Доминика (Russian-P,U)
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| Доминика (Yakut)
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| Доминика (Russia Buriat)
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| Доминика (Western Mari)
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| Содружество Доминики (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 多米尼克 (C,O,Chinese, Yue)
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| 多米尼克 (Chinese-P,U)
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| 多米尼克国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| دوم يِكَا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| كميوثً دوم يِكَا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| DMA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| DM (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO212 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| DO (C,O,FIPS)
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| Dominican (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Доминикæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Colony of Dominica (C,U)
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| Damóo Bikéyah (C,U,Navajo)
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| Dɔmeneka (C,U,Akan)
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| Dɔminiki (C,U,Bambara)
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| Doiminice (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Doiminicia (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Domeenika (C,U,Somali)
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| Domenica (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Domiinika (C,U,Northern Frisian)
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| Dominik (C,U,Turkish)
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| Dominik (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Dominik (Veps)
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| Dominika (C,U,Rundi)
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| Dominika (Rwanda)
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| Dominika (Wolof)
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| Dominika (Somali)
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| Dominika (Sunda)
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| Dominika (Tagalog)
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| Dominika (Nauruan)
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| Dominika (Malagasy)
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| Dominika (Maltese)
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| Dominika (Turkish, Crimean)
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| Dominika (Uzbek)
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| Dominika (Igbo)
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| Dominika (Indonesian)
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| Dominika (Javanese)
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| Dominika (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Dominika (Azerbaijani)
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| Dominika (Croatian)
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| Dominika (Bosnian)
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| Dominika (Latvian)
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| Dominika (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Dominika (Polish)
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| Dominika (Slovak)
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| Dominika (Slovene)
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| Dominika (Basque)
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| Dominika (Hausa)
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| Dominika (Albanian)
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| Dominika (Breton)
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| Dominika (Cornish)
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| Dominika (Czech)
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| Dominika (Afrikaans)
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| Dominika (Faroese)
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| Dominika (Lithuanian)
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| Dominika (Turkish)
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| Dominika (Dimli)
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| Dominika (Lower Sorbian)
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| Dominika (Western Frisian)
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| Dominika (Fulah)
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| Dominika (Upper Sorbian)
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| Dominika (Kikuyu)
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| Dominika (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Dominika (Swahili (generic))
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| Dominika (Central Bikol)
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| Dominika (Ido)
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| Dominika (Novial)
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| Dominika (Pitcairn-Norfolk)
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| Dòmíníkà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Dóminíka (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Domínika (C,U,Tetum)
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| Dömïnîka (C,U,Sangho)
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| Dominikai Közösség (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Dominika nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Dominikë (C,U,Albanian)
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| Domínike (C,U,Lingala)
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| Dominikeän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Dominikha (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Dominiko (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Důmińika (C,U,Silesian)
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| Duminika (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Duminika (Ayamará)
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| Duminiku (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Duomėnėka (C,U,Samogitian)
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| i-Dominica (C,U,Zulu)
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| IDomonokha (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| Orílẹ́ède Dòmíníkà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Presidency of Dominica (C,U)
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| State of Dominica (C,U)
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| Tô-mí-nì-kâ (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Tominika (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| ডোমিনিকা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ডোমিনিকা (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| Δομινίκα (C,U,Greek)
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| Остров Доминика (C,U,Russian)
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| Домінік (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ਡੋਮਿਨਿਕਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| დომინიკა (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| დომინიკა (Georgian)
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| डोमिनिका (C,U,Marathi)
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| डोमिनिका (Hindi)
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| डोमिनिका (Nepali)
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| डोमिनिका (Newari)
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| ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ (C,U,Kannada)
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| Դոմինիկա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Доминике (C,U)
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| Ντομίνικα (C,U,Greek)
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| Доминикин Ниицән (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| دومینیکا (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| دومینیکا (Persian-Farsi)
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| डोमोनिका (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| डोमोनिका (Pali)
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| 도미니카 연방 (C,U,Korean)
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| דומיניקה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ޑޮމިނިކާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| Домініка (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| 도미니카 (C,U,Korean)
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| டொமினிக்கா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ڈومینیکا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| ڈومینیکا (Urdu)
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| ដូមីនីកា (C,U,Khmer)
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| ዶመኒካ (C,U,Amharic)
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| دۆمینیکا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| دۆمینیکا (Central Kurdish)
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| ዶሚኒካ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ዶሚኒካ (Amharic)
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| ডোমিন্ইকা (C,U,Bengali)
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| डॉमिनिका (C,U,Marathi)
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| دومينيكا (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| دومينيكا (Arabic)
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| ഡൊമനിക്ക (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ประเทศดอมินีกา (C,U,Thai)
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| ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀ (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ଡୋମିନିକା (C,U,Odia)
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| ໂດເມນິກາ (C,U,Lao)
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| டொமினிகா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ドミニカ国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ဒိုမီနီကာနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| โดมินิกา (C,U,Thai)
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| دومىنىكا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| డోమెనిక (C,U,Telugu)
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| ဒိုမီနီကာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ڈومنیکا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ཌོ་མིན་ནི་ཀ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ડોમિનિકા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ഡൊമിനിക്ക (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ଡୋମିନାକା (C,U,Odia)
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| ಡೊಮಿನಿಕಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| Дамініка (C,U,Belarusian)
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| डोमिनिक (C,U,Hindi)
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| دومینیک (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence from Britain in 1978 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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British, 1805-1978 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Roseau .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, North and Central America, Dominica, Saint George) [1016462] |
| distinguished from .... |
Dominica .......... (island) |
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(World, North and Central America, Dominica) [7030369] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1978 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1978 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Commonwealth de la Dominique.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
ISO Handbook (1988) 778 |
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