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Gibraltar (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 36 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 005 21 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -5.3500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Rocky, narrow peninsula of strategic importance, coextensive with British crown colony; was known to the Greeks and others as one of the Pillars of Hercules; fortified by Tariq the Moor in 711; retaken by Spanish in 1462, and conquered by Britain in 1704; official language is English, though Spanish is widely spoken. |
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| Gibraltar (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Gibraltar (Somali)
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| Gibraltar (Maltese)
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| Gibraltar (Vietnamese)
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| Gibraltar (Indonesian)
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| Gibraltar (Azerbaijani)
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| Gibraltar (Croatian)
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| Gibraltar (Bosnian)
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| Gibraltar (Danish)
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| Gibraltar (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Gibraltar (Finnish)
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| Gibraltar (Swedish)
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| Gibraltar (Polish)
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| Gibraltar (Portuguese)
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| Gibraltar (Romanian)
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| Gibraltar (Slovene)
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| Gibraltar (Spanish)
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| Gibraltar (Catalan)
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| Gibraltar (Basque)
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| Gibraltar (Welsh)
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| Gibraltar (German)
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| Gibraltar (Low German)
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| Gibraltar (Czech)
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| Gibraltar (Dutch)
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| Gibraltar (Afrikaans)
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| Gibraltar (French)
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| Gibraltar (Faroese)
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| Gibraltar (Estonian)
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| Gibraltar (Greenlandic)
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| Gibraltar (Occitan)
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| Gibraltar (Luxembourgish)
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| Gibraltar (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Gibraltar (Romansh)
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| Gibraltar (Upper Sorbian)
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| Gibraltar (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Gibraltar (North Ndebele)
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| Gibraltar (Norwegian)
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| Gibraltar (Pampanga)
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| Gibraltar (Northern Sami)
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| Gibraltar (Shona)
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| Gibraltar (Ido)
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| Gibraltar (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Jabal Ṭāriq (C,O,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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............ | "Mount Tarik" in Arabic, for the conquerer Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, & from which the name "Gibraltar" is derived |
| Jebel Tariq (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Jabal-al-Tarik (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Gebel-al-Tarik (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Gibilterra (C,O,Italian-P,U,N)
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| GIB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GI (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO292 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Gibraltar dependent state (C,O,display,English,U,N)
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| Cəbəli-Tariq (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Calpe (C,U,Latin)
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| Calpis (C,U,Anglo-Saxon)
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| Cebelitarık (C,U,Turkish)
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| Chibraltar (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Dgibrâltar (C,U)
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| Djibraltar (C,U,Walloon)
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| Gibartar (C,U,Occitan)
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| Gibbilterra (C,U,Sicilian)
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| Gibiltæra (C,U,Ligurian)
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| Gibiltera (C,U,Venetian)
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| Gibiltera (Lombard)
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| Gibiltèra (C,U,Piemontese)
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| Gibraaltar (C,U,Gaelic, indigenous Manx)
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| Gíbraltar (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Gibraltár (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Gibraltár (Slovak)
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| Gibraltaras (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Gibraltar nutome (C,U,O,Ewe)
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| Ĝibraltaro (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gibraltārs (C,U,Latvian)
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| Giburalita (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Giburalitari (C,U,Rwanda)
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| Giobraltair (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Giobráltar (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Gjibraltari (C,U,Albanian)
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| Gyebralta (C,U,Akan)
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| Hibraltar (C,U,Tagalog)
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| i-Gibraltar (C,U,Zulu)
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| Jibaraltar (C,U,Hausa)
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| Jibeletale (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Jibralta (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Jibralta (Swahili (generic))
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| Jibraltaar (C,U,Wolof)
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| Jibraltaar (Somali)
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| Jibraltaar (Fulah)
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| Jibraltar (C,U,Ladino)
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| Jibraltar (Breton)
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| Jibraltar (Cornish)
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| Jibrulta (C,U,Pitcairn-Norfolk)
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| Juburalitari (C,U,Rundi)
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| Kāmaka (C,U,Maori)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gibaratara (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Sipalālitā (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Xibraltar (C,U,Asturian)
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| Xibraltar (Galician)
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| Xibraltar - Gibraltar (C,U,Galician)
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| Zibatalɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Zibralitari (C,U,Bambara)
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| Zibraltara (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Zibraltära, Zibaratära (C,U,Sangho)
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| גיברלטר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ґібралтар (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Гибралтар (C,U,Tatar)
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| Гибралтар (Tajik)
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| Гибралтар (Chuvash)
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| Гибралтар (Serbian)
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| Гибралтар (Macedonian)
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| Гибралтар (Kazakh)
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| Гибралтар (Bulgarian)
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| Гибралтар (Russian)
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| Гибралтар (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| 지브롤터 (C,U,Korean)
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| Γιβραλτάρ (C,U,Greek)
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| ジブラルタル (C,U,Japanese)
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| جبرالٹر (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| جبرالٹر (Urdu)
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| Ջիբրալթար (C,U,Armenian)
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| জিব্রালটার (C,U,Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர் (C,U,Tamil)
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| ޖަބަލްޠާރިޤު (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| ยิบรอลตาร์ (C,U,Thai)
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| Гибралта Балһсн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| مستعمرة جبل طارق (C,U,Arabic)
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| جبل طارق (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| جبل طارق (Arabic)
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| 直布罗陀 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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| جيبرالتار (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| גיבראלטאר (C,U,Yiddish)
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| 直布羅陀 (C,U,Chinese)
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| გიბრალტარი (C,U,Georgian)
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| Гібралтар (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Гібралтар (Belarusian)
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| جبل الطارق (C,U,Urdu)
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| ཇིབ་རཱལ་ཊར། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| گیبرالتار (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| जिब्राल्टर (C,U,Marathi)
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| जिब्राल्टर (Hindi)
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| ଜିବ୍ରାଲ୍ଟର୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| ጊብራልታር (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጊብራልታር (Amharic)
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| ජිබ්රෝල්ටාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| जिब्राल्टार (C,U,Nepali)
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| ಗಿಬ್ರಾಲ್ಟರ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| జిబ్రాల్టార్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ജിബ്രാള്ട്ടര് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| જીબ્રાલ્ટર (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ჰიბრალტარი (C,U,Georgian)
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| ஜிப்ரால்டர் (C,U,Tamil)
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| জিব্রাল্টার (C,U,Bengali)
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Place Types: |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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ceded to Britain by Spain in 1713 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| colony (C) |
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| peninsula (C) |
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| dependent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Gibraltar .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Europe, Gibraltar dependent state) [1041929] |
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