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Seychelles (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 04 35 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -4.5833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 055 40 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 55.6667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises two groups of 115 scattered islands in the Indian Ocean; population is largely descended from French colonists and freed Africans; colonized by French in 1768; incorporated as dependency of Mauritius under British rule 1814-1903; official languages are French, English and Creole. |
Names: |
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| Sesel (preferred,C,V,Seselwa Creole French-P,U,N)
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| Repiblik Sesel (C,V,O,Seselwa Creole French,U,N)
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| Seychelles (C,V,English-P,U,B)
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| Seychelles (Maltese)
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| Seychelles (Indonesian)
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| Seychelles (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Seychelles (Portuguese)
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| Seychelles (Romanian)
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| Seychelles (Spanish)
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| Seychelles (Catalan)
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| Seychelles (Aragonese)
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| Seychelles (Welsh)
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| Seychelles (French-P,U,B)
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| Seychelles (Italian)
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| Seychelles (Turkish)
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| Seychelles (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Seychelles (North Ndebele)
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| Seychelles (Pampanga)
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| Seychelles (Shona)
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| Seychelles (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| République des Seychelles (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| Republic of Seychelles (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| República de Seychelles (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Seschellen (C,O)
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| Сейшельские Острова (C,O,Russian-P,U)
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| Республика Сейшельские Острова (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 塞舌尔 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 塞舌尔共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| س ضُيَ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً س ضُيَ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| SYC (C,O,ISO3L)
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| SC (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO690 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| SE (C,O,FIPS)
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| Seychellois (C,O)
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| Amazinga ya Seyisheli (C,U,Rundi)
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| Colony of the Seychelles (C,U)
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| Ilhas Seychelles (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Insulae Seisellenses (C,U,Latin)
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| i-Seychelles (C,U,Zulu)
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| Na Séiséil (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Orílẹ́ède seṣẹlẹsi (C,U,Yoruba)
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| ʻOtumotu Seiseli (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Säceluäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Saishal (C,U,Hausa)
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| Sêch·èles (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Sechelez (C,U,Breton)
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| Seichèlas (C,U,Occitan)
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| Seiiellid (C,U,Estonian)
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| Seišelas (C,U,Latvian)
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| Seišeliai (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Seišellid (C,U,Estonian)
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| Seišeļu salas (C,U,Latvian)
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| Seixeles (C,U,Asturian)
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| Seixeles (Galician)
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| Seixeles - Seychelles (C,U,Galician)
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| Sejšeli (C,U,Croatian)
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| Sejšeli (Bosnian)
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| Sejšeli (Slovene)
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| Sejŝeloj (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Sejshellet (C,U,Albanian)
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| Sesere (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Seshele (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Seshɛls nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Sesɛli (C,U,Bambara)
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| Seszele (C,U,Polish)
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| Seyçels (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Seycheli (C,U,Ido)
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| Seychellane (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Seychellas (C,U,Romansh)
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| Seychelle (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Seychelleak (C,U,Basque)
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| Seychellen (C,U,German)
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| Seychellen (Low German)
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| Seychellen (Dutch)
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| Seychellene (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Seychellene (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Seychellene (Norwegian)
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| Seychellerna (C,U,Swedish)
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| Seychellerne (C,U,Danish)
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| Seychelleseyjar (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Seychelle-szigetek (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Seychellit (C,U,Finnish)
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| Seychellsullot (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Seychellys (C,U,Cornish)
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| Seychelské ostrovy (C,U,Slovak)
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| Seychely (C,U,Slovak)
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| Seychely (Czech)
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| Seyhyɛl (C,U,Akan)
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| Seysel (C,U,Fulah)
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| Seyşel Adaları (C,U,Turkish)
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| Seyşeller (C,U,Turkish)
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| Seyshela (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Sëyshêle (C,U,Sangho)
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| Seyshels (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Seyskelloyggjarnar (C,U,Faroese)
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| Shelisheli (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Shelisheli (Swahili (generic))
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| Sishel (C,U,Albanian)
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| Sishelis (C,U,Somali)
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| Sɛshɛlɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Visiwa vya Shelisheli (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Xây-sen (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Xây sen (Seychelles) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| سيشيل (C,U,Arabic)
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| 세이셸 (C,U,Korean)
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| Сејшели (C,U,Serbian)
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| Сејшели (Macedonian)
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| Сейшели (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Сейшели (Ukrainian)
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| Ҷазираҳои Сейшел (C,U,Tajik)
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| เซเชลส์ (C,U,Thai)
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| سیشل (C,U,Pashto)
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| سیشل (Persian-Farsi)
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| Σεϋχέλλες (C,U,Greek)
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| Сейшелски острови (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Сейшельські Острови (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| セイシェル (C,U,Japanese)
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| ເຊແຊວ (C,U,Lao)
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| ประเทศเซเชลส์ (C,U,Thai)
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| سيشل (C,U,Arabic)
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| សីសែល (C,U,Khmer)
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| ሲሸልስ (C,U,Amharic)
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| 쉐이쉘 (C,U,Korean)
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| ሲሼልስ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ሲሼልስ (Amharic)
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| セーシェル (C,U,Japanese)
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| Սեյշելներ (C,U,Armenian)
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| سېيشېل ئاراللىرى (C,U,Uyghur)
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| סיישל (C,U,Hebrew )
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| სეიშელის კუნძულები (C,U,Georgian)
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| سیچلز (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| སཱ་ཤཻལ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| সিসিলি (C,U,Bengali)
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| Сейшелски О-ви (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Сейшэльскія Астравы (C,U,Belarusian)
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| सेशेल्स (C,U,Marathi)
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| सेशेल्स (Hindi)
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| سیشێل (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ಸೀಶೆಲ್ಲೆಸ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| 세이쉘 (C,U,Korean)
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| Сейшельские о-ва (C,U,Russian)
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| איי סיישל (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ஸேசேல்ஸ் (C,U,Tamil)
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| സെയ്ഷെല്സ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ସେଚେଲସ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| सेचेलेस (C,U,Nepali)
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| సీషెల్స్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| سشلیز (C,U,Urdu)
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| શેશેલ્સ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Seychelles, Colony of the (H,V)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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internally self-governing 1975 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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in Commonwealth, June 1976 |
| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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claimed by French 1744; taken by English 1794 |
| colony (H) |
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British, 1903-1976 |
| dependency (H) |
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of Mauritius, 1810 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Victoria .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Seychelles) [1092558] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1976 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1976 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| République des Seychelles.......... |
[VP] |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 784 |
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