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Aruba (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 12 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 12.5000 decimal degrees |
Long: 069 58 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -69.9667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest inhabitants were Arawak Amerindians, who left cave drawings, pottery & tools; claimed by Spain in 1499; center of piracy; unlike on other W Indies islands, Amerindians were not exterminated; Dutch settled island beginning in 1634; official language is Dutch, though Papiamento is widely spoken. |
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Aruba (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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Aruba (Rundi)
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Aruba (Somali)
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Aruba (Maltese)
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Aruba (Vietnamese)
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Aruba (Indonesian)
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Aruba (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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Aruba (Azerbaijani)
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Aruba (Bambara)
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Aruba (Croatian)
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Aruba (Bosnian)
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Aruba (Latvian)
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Aruba (Lingala)
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Aruba (Magyar (Hungarian))
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Aruba (Danish)
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Aruba (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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Aruba (Finnish)
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Aruba (Swedish)
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Aruba (Polish)
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Aruba (Portuguese)
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Aruba (Romanian)
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Aruba (Slovak)
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Aruba (Slovene)
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Aruba (Spanish)
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Aruba (Catalan)
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Aruba (Basque)
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Aruba (Akan)
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Aruba (Welsh)
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Aruba (Hausa)
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Aruba (German)
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Aruba (Breton)
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Aruba (Czech)
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Aruba (Dutch-P,U,N)
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Aruba (Afrikaans)
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Aruba (French)
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Aruba (Galician)
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Aruba (Faroese)
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Aruba (Italian)
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Aruba (Lithuanian)
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Aruba (Estonian)
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Aruba (Greenlandic)
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Aruba (Turkish)
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Aruba (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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Aruba (Romansh)
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Aruba (Kikuyu)
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Aruba (Luba-Katanga)
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Aruba (Malay (macrolanguage))
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Aruba (Northern Sami)
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Aruba (Swahili (generic))
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Oruba (C,O)
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ABW (C,O,ISO3L)
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AW (C,O,ISO2L)
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ISO533 (C,O,ISO3N)
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AA (C,O,FIPS)
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Aruban (C,V)
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Арубæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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ʻAlupa (C,U,O,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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Arobà (C,U,Malagasy)
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Àrúbà (C,U,Yoruba)
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Arûba (C,U,Sangho)
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Arûba (Western Frisian)
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Arúba (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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Arúba (Icelandic)
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Aruba nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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Arubha (C,U,North Ndebele)
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Arubha (Shona)
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Arubo (C,U,Esperanto)
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Aruuba (C,U,Fulah)
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Aruuba (Northern Frisian)
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i-Aruba (C,U,Zulu)
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Orílẹ́ède Árúbà (C,U,Yoruba)
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アルバ (C,U,Japanese)
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अरुबा (C,U,Marathi)
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अरुबा (Nepali)
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أروبا (C,U,Arabic)
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Аруба (C,U,Chuvash)
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Аруба (Serbian)
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Аруба (Macedonian)
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Аруба (Mongolian)
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Аруба (Kazakh)
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Аруба (Bulgarian)
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Аруба (Russian)
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Аруба (Ukrainian)
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Аруба (Rusyn, Ukrainian (language group))
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Аруба (Yakut)
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Аруба (Belarusian)
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ཨ་རུ་བ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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ཨ་རུ་བ། (Dzongkha)
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އަރޫބާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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اروبا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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اروبا (Urdu)
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اروبا (Arabic, Egyptian)
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阿鲁巴 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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阿鲁巴 (Chinese)
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阿魯巴 (C,U,Chinese)
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আরুবা (C,U,Bengali)
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আরুবা (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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ئارۇبا (C,U,Uyghur)
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अरूबा (C,U,Marathi)
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अरूबा (Hindi)
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அருபா (C,U,Tamil)
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ئارووبا (C,U,Kurdish)
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ئارووبا (Central Kurdish)
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Արուբա (C,U,Armenian)
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ಅರುಬಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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อารูบา (C,U,Thai)
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アルバ島 (C,U,Japanese)
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ອາລູບາ (C,U,Lao)
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ଆରୁବା (C,U,Odia)
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ארובה (C,U,Hebrew )
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آروبا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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آروبا (Arabic)
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아루바 (C,U,Korean)
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आरूबा (C,U,Nepali)
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අරුබාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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አሩባ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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አሩባ (Amharic)
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અરુબા (C,U,Gujarati)
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అరుబా (C,U,Telugu)
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Αρούμπα (C,U,Greek)
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არუბა (C,U,Georgian)
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അറുബ (C,U,Malayalam)
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அரூபா (C,U,Tamil)
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dependent state (preferred, C) |
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Dutch possession since 1816, separate from Netherlands Antilles since January 1, 1986 |
primary political unit (C) |
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island (C) |
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former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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area (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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capital is .... |
Oranjestad .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Aruba) [1013002] |
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