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Bahrain (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 26 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 26.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 050 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 50.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises several low-lying islands; area was flourishing Dilman center by 2000 BCE; occupied by Portuguese 16th century, by Arab subjects of Persia 17th-18th centuries; ruled by member of Kuwait family from 1782; British defense responsibility 19th-20th centuries; official language is Arabic, though English, Farsi and Urdu are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Al Baḥrayn (preferred,C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U)
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| Al-Baḥrayn (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Mamlakat al Baḥrayn (C,V,O,Arabic (transliterated),U)
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| Dawlat al-Baḥrayn (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al-Bahrayn (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Al Bahrayn (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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............ | meaning "Kingdom of the Two Seas" |
| Bahrain (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Bahrain (Nauruan)
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| Bahrain (Malagasy)
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| Bahrain (Vietnamese)
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| Bahrain (Ilocano)
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| Bahrain (Indonesian)
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| Bahrain (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Bahrain (Danish)
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| Bahrain (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Bahrain (Finnish)
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| Bahrain (Swedish)
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| Bahrain (Portuguese)
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| Bahrain (Romanian)
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| Bahrain (Catalan)
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| Bahrain (Basque)
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| Bahrain (Welsh)
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| Bahrain (German)
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| Bahrain (Low German)
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| Bahrain (Faroese)
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| Bahrain (Italian)
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| Bahrain (Sicilian)
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| Bahrain (Greenlandic)
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| Bahrain (Occitan)
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| Bahrain (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Bahrain (Romansh)
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| Bahrain (Upper Sorbian)
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| Bahrain (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Bahrain (Norwegian)
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| Bahrain (Northern Sami)
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| Bahrain (Swahili (generic))
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| Bahrain (Ido)
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| Kingdom of Bahrain (C,O,English)
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| Bahrein (C,O,Croatian)
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| Bahrein (Bosnian)
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| Bahrein (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Bahrein (Portuguese)
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| Bahrein (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Bahrein (Aragonese)
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| Bahrein (Asturian)
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| Bahrein (Albanian)
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| Bahrein (Breton)
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| Bahrein (Dutch)
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| Bahrein (Afrikaans)
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| Bahrein (Galician)
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| Bahrein (Italian)
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| Bahrein (Estonian)
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| Bahrein (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Bahrein (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Bahrein (Limburgan)
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| Reino de Bahrein (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Bahreïn (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Royaume de Bahreïn (C,O,French,U)
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| État de Bahreïn (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Бахрейн (C,V,Kazakh)
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| Бахрейн (Bulgarian)
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| Бахрейн (Russian-P,U)
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| Бахрейн (Ukrainian)
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| Бахрейн (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Бахрейн (Udmurt)
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| Королевство Бахрейн (C,V)
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| ا بًحرٍن (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| مم ىَة ا بًحرٍن (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| 巴林 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| 巴林王国 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| BHR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| BH (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO048 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| BA (C,O,FIPS)
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| Bahraini (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Bahraini (Albanian)
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| בחריין (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Бахрaин (C,U,Macedonian)
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| Al Baḩrayn (C,U)
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| Baareeni (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Bachrain (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Bachrein (C,U,Western Frisian)
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| Baharan (C,U,Hausa)
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| Bahareni (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Bahareni (Shona)
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| Bahareni (Swahili (generic))
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| Bahareyini (C,U,Rundi)
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| Baharina (C,U,Latin)
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| Bahrain - البحرين (C,U,Galician)
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| Bahrâina (C,U,Sangho)
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| Bahrain nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Bahrajn (C,U,Polish)
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| Bahrajn (Slovak)
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| Bahrajn (Slovene)
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| Bahrajn (Czech)
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| Baħrajn (C,U,Maltese)
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| Bahrayn (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Bahrayn (Ilocano)
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| Bahrayn (Occitan)
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| Bahréin (C,U,Spanish)
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| Bahreina (C,U,Latvian)
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| Bahreinas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Bahrene (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Bahreyin (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Bahreyn (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Bahreyn (Cornish)
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| Bahreyn (Turkish)
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| Bahreyn (Fulah)
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| Bahrɛnɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Bahruäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Bairéin (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Barein (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Barein (Icelandic)
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| Barein (Occitan)
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| Barein (Pampanga)
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| Barein (Waray (Philippines))
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| Barejno (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Ba-ren (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Baren (C,U,Akan)
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| Bareyini (C,U,Bambara)
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| Baxreyn (C,U,Somali)
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| Behreyn (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Bhahareni (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Dawlat al Baḩrayn (C,U)
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| fd (C,U,Arpitan)
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| i-Bahrain (C,U,Zulu)
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| Mamlakat al Baḩrayn (C,U)
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| Orílẹ́ède Báránì (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Paleini (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Shekdom of Bahrain (C,U)
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| ประเทศบาห์เรน (C,U,Thai)
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| مملكة البحرين (C,U,Arabic)
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| البحرين (C,U,Arabic)
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| ܒܚܪܝܢ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| บาห์เรน (C,U,Thai)
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| ബഹ്റൈൻ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| बहरैन (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| बहरैन (Kashmiri)
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| Бахрэйн (C,U,Belarusian)
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| בחרין (C,U,Hebrew )
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| 바레인 (C,U,Korean)
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| バーレーン (C,U,Japanese)
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| ບາເລນ (C,U,Lao)
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| بەھرېيىن (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Баҳрайн (C,U,Tajik)
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| ბაჰრეინი (C,U,Georgian)
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| பஹ்ரைன் (C,U,Tamil)
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| பகுரைன் (C,U,Tamil)
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| Бахреин (C,U,Serbian)
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| Бахреин (Macedonian)
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| বাহরাইন (C,U,Bengali)
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| បារ៉ែន (C,U,Khmer)
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| बहरीन (C,U,Hindi)
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| دَوْلَة اَلْبَحْرَيْن (C,U,Arabic)
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| ባህሬን (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ባህሬን (Amharic)
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| བཧ་རེན (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| Բահրեյն (C,U,Armenian)
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| بحرین (C,U,Pashto)
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| بحرین (Urdu)
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| بحرین (Persian-Farsi)
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| Μπαχρέιν (C,U,Greek)
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| ဘာရိန်း (C,U,Burmese)
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| ಬಹರೈನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| బహరేన్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ବାହାରିନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| बाहरेन (C,U,Hindi)
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| بەحرەین (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ബഹ്റൈന് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| बहारीन (C,U,Marathi)
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| বাহারিন (C,U,Bengali)
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| બેહરીન (C,U,Gujarati)
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| बाह्रेन (C,U,Nepali)
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| බහරේන් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| བྷཱ་རེན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Aval (H,V)
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| Awal (H,V)
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| State of Bahrain (H,O)
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| Tylos (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
| Tyros (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Additional Parents: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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member of United Nations since 1971 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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Portuguese, 1521-1602; Persian, 1602-1783; defended by Britain, 1820-1971 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Al Manāmah .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Bahrain, Al ‘Āşimah) [7000690] |
| member of .... |
Arab League .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7000153] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1971 |
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