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Guam (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 28 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 13.4667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 144 50 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 144.8333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises Guam Island and two smaller adjacent islands in Mariana Islands; probably visited by Portuguese navigator Magellan in 1521; claimed by Spain in 1565 and native peoples were subjugated 130 years later; taken from Spain in Spanish-American War; official languages are English and Chamorro. |
Names: |
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| Guam (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Guam (Basque)
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| Guam (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Guam (Danish)
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| Guam (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Guam (Finnish)
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| Guam (Swedish)
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| Guam (Portuguese)
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| Guam (Romanian)
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| Guam (Romansh)
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| Guam (Slovak)
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| Guam (Slovene)
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| Guam (Spanish)
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| Guam (Catalan)
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| Guam (Polish)
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| Guam (Akan)
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| Guam (Irish Gaelic)
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| Guam (Welsh)
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| Guam (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Guam (Galician)
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| Guam (German)
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| Guam (Breton)
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| Guam (French)
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| Guam (Czech)
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| Guam (Dutch)
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| Guam (Afrikaans)
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| Guam (Turkish)
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| Guam (Estonian)
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| Guam (Indonesian)
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| Guam (North Ndebele)
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| Guam (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guam (Northern Sami)
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| Guam (Shona)
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| Guam (Malagasy)
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| Guam (Somali)
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| Guam (Italian)
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| Guam (Faroese)
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| Guam (Croatian)
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| Guam (Bosnian)
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| Guam (Greenlandic)
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| Guahan (C,V,Chamorro)
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| GUM (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GU (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO316 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GQ (C,V,FIPS)
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| Đảo Gu-am (C,U,O,Vietnamese)
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| Guåhan (C,U,Chamorro)
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| Guâm (C,U,Sangho)
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| Guama (C,U,Latvian)
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| Guamas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Guam nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Guam - US Unincorporated Organized Territory (C,U)
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| Guwam (C,U,Fulah)
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| Gvam (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Gvamo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gwam (C,U,Maltese)
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| Gwam (Bambara)
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| Gwam (Hausa)
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| Gwam (Kikuyu)
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| Gwam (Swahili (generic))
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| Gwamɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gwamu (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gwamu (Rundi)
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| i-Guam (C,U,Zulu)
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| Islan Guåhan (C,U,Chamorro)
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| Kuamu (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngwame (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Guamu (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Quam (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Territory of Guam (C,U)
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| Гуам (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Гуам (Serbian)
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| Гуам (Russian)
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| Гуам (Ukrainian)
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| グアム (C,U,Japanese)
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| גואם (C,U,Hebrew )
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| กวม (C,U,Thai)
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| குவாம் (C,U,Tamil)
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| غوام (C,U,Arabic)
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| 괌 (C,U,Korean)
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| गुआम (C,U,Hindi)
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| गुआम (Marathi)
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| გუამი (C,U,Georgian)
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| Γκουάμ (C,U,Greek)
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| گوام (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| گوام (Kurdish)
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| ഗ്വാം (C,U,Malayalam)
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| گوآم (C,U,Urdu)
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| गुवाम (C,U,Nepali)
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| 关岛 (C,U,Chinese)
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| ଗୁଆମ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| గ్వామ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| গুয়াম (C,U,Bengali)
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| ಗುಯಾಮ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ጉዋም (C,U,Amharic)
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| ጉዋም (Tigrinya)
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| Гвам (C,U,Macedonian)
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| ဂူအမ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| ગ્વામ (C,U,Gujarati)
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Guam (dependent state) (P) |
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Additional Parents: |
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Guam (dependent state) |
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Guam (dependent state) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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ceded to USA in December 1898 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| unincorporated territory (C) |
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| dependent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Hagåtña .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Guam) [1098767] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Guam - US Unincorporated Organized Territory.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 4043988 |
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