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- Flag of Rhode Island (948 bytes)
1: ...[[Image:Rhode_Island_flag.jpg|thumb|Flag of Rhode Island. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
3: ...motto: "Hope." The [[flag]] of the State of Rhode Island as it presently exists was formally adopted in [[...
7: ..., website of the government of the state of Rhode Island.
8: ...otw.net/flags/us-ri.html Flags of the world Rhode Island page] - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
2: Name = Rhode Island |
3: Fullname = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
4: Flag = Rhode Island state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Rhode Island]] |
6: Seal = Rhode Island state seal.png | - Island (4674 bytes)
1: ...Image:Rhodes_7_04_9561W.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Island of Rhodes, Greece. Picture provided by [http://cl...
2: ... for a relatively small island. Groups of related islands are called [[archipelago]]s.
4: ...anic''' islands. There are also some [[artificial island]]s.
6: The word ''island'' derives ultimately from the [[Norse]] word ''ig...
8: == Continental islands == - Vancouver Island Marmot (2031 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Vancouver Island Marmot}}<br/>{{StatusEndangered}}
14: ...ly in the high mountainous regions of [[Vancouver Island]]. They can be distinguished from other [[marmot]... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
1: ...tical entities that are located on [[island]]s or island-[[continent]]s.
7: ...hough Greenland is usually considered the largest island
32: *[[Marshall Islands]]
47: *[[Solomon Islands]]
61: *[[Cook Islands]][[#Notes|?]] - Rhode Island State Map (233 bytes)
- Rhode Island State Facts (257 bytes)
2: [[Image:rhode_island_facts.jpg|center|thumb|250px|Image provided by [h...
3: [http://academickids.com/pdf/state_facts/rhode_island_facts.pdf Download Printable State Facts Handout] - Island Fox (12651 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color=pink | name= Island Fox}}<br />{{StatusEndangered}}
2: ... [[Image:Urocyon littoralis full figure.jpg|250px|Island Fox]] | caption = }}
15: ...'Channel Islands Gray Fox'', ''California Channel Island Fox'' and ''Insular Gray Fox''.
17: ...s decimated fox numbers on several of the Channel Islands in the 1990s.
18: ...lations and restore the ecosystems of the Channel Islands are being undertaken.
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
159: | [[Rhode Island]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
1: ...n called the "''Pharos of Alexandria''" after the island on which it resided), was considered one of the [...
5: ...Martin Heemskerck. The [[lighthouse]] stood on an island in the harbour of [[Alexandria]] and was over 134...
17: Pharos was a small island just off the coast of [[Egypt]], with its artific... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime'... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...d "Gunnbjarnarsker" ("Gunnbjörn's skerries"). Gunnbjorn's accidental discovery pushed him aside in th...
6: Erik traveled southward from the tip of the island, soon to be called Cape Farewell and continued do... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
29: ...t trackway between [[Cadbury Castle]] and [[Glastonbury]] (which is still known as King Arthur's Cause...
45: ...umb|right|250px|King Arthur's tombsite at [[Glastonbury Abbey]]]]
47: ... to [[Avalon]] (sometimes identified with [[Glastonbury]] in [[Somerset]], [[England]]), where his wou...
51: ... [[Gottfried von Strassburg]], [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]], ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', an...
53: In [[1191]], monks of [[Glastonbury Abbey]] announced that they had found the buri... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...d in [[1820]] during an expedition to the [[Greek islands]]. On that expedition, D'Urville recognized the...
8: ...sts of [[New Guinea]], [[New Zealand]], and other islands, and found out the probable place of the death o...
14: ...], [[Irian Jaya]], [[Indonesia]], and [[D'Urville Island]] ([[New Zealand]]) were named after him. There ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
27: ...pent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit h...
35: ...ra Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving his ...
46: ...mbus calculated that the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan was 2,400 nautical miles (about 4,444 k...
54: ...d credit for being "the principal cause why those islands were discovered."
61: ...o the expedition. He first sailed to the [[Canary Islands]], fortunately owned by Castile, where he reprov... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
1: [[Image:IbnBattuta.jpg|thumb|250px|Ibn Battuta (1304-1377).]]
47: ...by imposing strict judgments in the laissez-faire island kingdom. From there he carried on to [[Ceylon]] f...
49: ...then sailed to the Maldives again before getting onboard a Chinese junk and trying once again to get t...
82: *[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Afric... - Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...York City]] in [[1897]], it still weighed over 33 [[ton]]s.
62: ...d an application for iron casting, cast iron cannonballs.
87: ...onverter can still be seen at the city's [[Kelham Island Museum]]). In the Bessemer process, molten pig i...
94: ... Today, worldwide annual production is around 850 million tonnes. This widespread availability of... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
29: ...the White House is lit up in the colors of the rainbow pride flag
44: ...dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
45: ... hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.
51: - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...]], islands off the coast of [[Fujian]], and some islands in the South China Sea. The PRC does not recogni...
18: ...included "[[barbarian]]" regimes such as the [[Xianbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inn...
25: ...vilization, to these peoples. For example, the Xianbei called their [[Northern Wei]] regime ''Zhongguo...
81: ...ce]], [[Taipei]], [[Kaohsiung]] and some offshore islands of [[Fujian]] province). Today, the political sc...
100: ...45, Japan relinquished the [[sovereignty]] of the island in the [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]], and the [[... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
46: ...avier]], but he died the same year on the Chinese island of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mai... - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
4: ...ta|Aegineta, Paulus]], 4th century surgeon of the island of [[Aegina]] - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
11: ... leading a campaign against the [[druids]] on the island of [[Anglesey]] in north [[Wales]], the Iceni reb... - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
5: ...rdinian]] ''giudicessa'' (ruler or judge) and the island's greatest heroine.
9: ...p by the Pope. Arborea obtained almost all of the island during this war. After rallying Sardinian forces,... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
18: ...oduced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of [[Oleron]] in [[1160]], and then into England.... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
33: ... in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but Marie de G...
46: ...arles IX]]. Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Edinburgh]], signed by Mary's representatives on [[July...
57: ... 26]], [[1565]] to confront them, returning to Edinburgh to raise more troops the following month. Mor...
59: ...ssfully attempted to cause her to miscarry their unborn child.
62: ...syphilis]]). He was recuperating in a house in Edinburgh where Mary visited him frequently, so that it... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
51: ...entury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the yo...
113: ...] and [[Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg|Princess Beatrice]] as carriers, and [[Prince ...
145: ...red, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh]]||[[6 August]] [[1844]]||[[31 July]] [[1900]...
147: ...Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg]]; had issue
155: ...ince Henry of Battenberg|HRH Prince Henry of Battenberg]]; had issue - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
44: ...04]], the [[United States|American]] TV network [[NBC]] broadcast [[Magnetic tape|tapes]] of Diana dis...
100: ...-Fayed has repeatedly claimed that the Duke of Edinburgh controls SIS.)
104: ...ntre section of the Mercedes, including one of a unbloodied Diana with no outward injuries, crouched o...
119: ...buried at Althorp in [[Northamptonshire]] on an [[island]] in the middle of a [[lake]] called the Round Ov... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
41: ...lt Campobello International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift of ... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie...
11: ...ne of its foci [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]] and the island of [[Ceylon]] where Henry Olcott did the majority...
37: *{{gutenberg author|id=Annie_Besant|name=Annie Besant}} - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
10: [[Image:Goldmanberkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander...
18: ...[prison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployment...
82: * [ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/nrcsm10.txt ''Anarchism and Other Essa... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
22: ...rhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide her to the island once she arrived in the vicinity.
34: ...owland, to [[Nikumaroro]] (then known as Gardner) Island in what is now [[Kiribati]], landed there, and ul...
40: ...00 square mile (2,600 km²) area near Howland Island for Earhart's plane. The ocean where Jourdan plan... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
8: ...lying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly flying solo and wit... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
33: ...throughout Melanesia, and especially in the large island of [[New Guinea]]. Moreover, male anthropologist...
49: "In her research on [[Manus Island]] of New Guinea, she discovered that 'primitive' ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
16: ..., she prevailed on several members of the [[Rhode Island State Assembly]] to take Simmons case directly to... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
3: [[Image:PICT0045.JPG|thumb|300px|Clare Island, associated with Grace O' Malley]]
11: ...ce at the family castle or tower-house in [[Clare Island]]. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
68: ... of the Southern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition. - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
5: ...o [[Paris]]. She posed as a princess from [[Java (island)|Java]] and became an exotic dancer, performing "... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
14: ...and Islands]] and at her winter home on [[Merritt Island, Florida]] before retiring to a farm near [[Clayt... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
7: ...ational Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]] nam... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
49: ...e a humorous guest appearance on the gay-themed [[NBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Will & Grace]]'', in a [[2000]]...
158: ** Washington DC, Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, Edinburgh, Charlotte
167: ...ty, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Dallas, Amelia Island, Orlando, Montreal, Richmond, Tokyo
179: ...''', Virginia Slims Championships [March], Amelia Island, Eastbourne, US Indoors, Sydney, Orlando, Newport...
191: ...on, DC, New England, Chicago, Hilton Head, Amelia Island, Eastbourne, Filderstadt - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
31: ...t of U.S. state flowers|state flower]] of [[Rhode Island]], [[Illinois]], and [[New Jersey]]. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
82: ...third-rail locomotives are operated by the [[Long Island Rail Road]] and [[Metro-North Railroad]] between ... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
60: ...ffolk County, New York|Suffolk County]] on [[Long Island]]. The contest drew considerable national attent...
106: *[http://www.ontheissues.org/NY_Senate_NBC.htm Clinton's positions in 2000 Senate Race] - Glass (26176 bytes)
37: ...ntense red, often [[marketing|marketed]] as "[[cranberry]]". [[Uranium]] (0.1 to 2%) can be added to g...
44: ...th century|8th centuries]] have been found on the island of [[Torcello]] near [[Venice]]. These form an im... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
15: ... made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a growing sophisticati...
22: ...ac, [[France]], at [[Skara Brae]] in the [[Orkney Islands]], in [[Portugal]], and in [[Wiltshire]], [[Engl...
55: ..., the most famous of which is located at [[Easter Island]]. - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...55]], reached China in [[1266]], arriving at [[Khanbaliq]] (now [[Beijing]]). They returned from China...
7: ...radition that the Polo family originated from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today's [[Croatia]... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ... [[Agueybana]], and quickly gained control of the island. As a result, Ponce de Leon was named Governor of...
7: ...elected Ponce de León to colonize and govern the island of Puerto Rico. In the meantime Diego Columbus ha...
9: ...all of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce de León searching for the [...
12: ...n 1513. On [[March 27]] [[1513]], he sighted an [[island]], but sailed on without landing. Later, on April...
14: ...before returning to Puerto Rico.[[Image:poncedeleonburial.jpg|thumb|Cathedral where Ponce de Leon is b... - Geography (8541 bytes)
33: *[[island]] - Cairo (12536 bytes)
14: Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egypt...
18: ...pand east into the desert. Bridges link the Nile islands of [[Gezira]] and [[Roda]], where many governmen...
55: ...Cairo.JPG|thumb|left|South-Central Cairo from the island of [[Zamalek]].]] - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
9: ...g variation, the ''Fangufangu'' nose flute of the island of [[Tonga]] is made with intact node walls at bo... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ...d to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, a great...
48: ...is reported to have been introduced to the [[Cook Islands]] in [[1990]] by the band Te Ava Piti ([http://w... - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
9: ...t the partisans of Antigonus and re-conquered the island ([[313 BC|313]]). A revolt of Cyrene was crushed ...
22: ...cusCurtius] — (Chapter II of E. R Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - George Washington (29551 bytes)
43: ...nsive there. Washington lost the [[Battle of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving...
51: ... them there, Washington's forces moved to [[Rhode Island]], where he commanded military operations until t... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
82: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[George_Clinton_(politician)...
90: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Albert Gallatin]]'''||align...
96: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Robert_Smith_(U.S._politici...
98: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[John Breckinridge]]'''||ali...
100: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Caesar A. Rodney]]'''||alig... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
63: ...of a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion ...
65: ...tually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one."</blockquote>
67: ... which belongs exclusively to the people of Rhode Island." It was the first occasion in U.S. history where...
69: <blockquote>"The people of the State of Rhode Island have been too long distinguished for their love o...
73: ...ending the territory of slave-holding states and unbalancing the [[Missouri Compromise]]. The conseq... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
11: ...of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas Ba... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
62: ...eida'' as it sailed in the [[East River]] to Long Island Sound. The surgery was conducted through the mout...
90: |align="left"| ||align="left"|''None''||align="left"|1885&ndas...
98: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Charles S. Fairchild]]'''||...
106: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Don M. Dickinson]]'''||alig...
112: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[William F. Vilas]]'''||alig... - Continent (6440 bytes)
36: ...considered to be a part of Europe. The [[Pacific islands]] may be associated with Australia to form the r... - Landmass (122 bytes)
4: * large [[island]]s - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
23: ...ne possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mout...
58: ... port, and a flourishing city arose on the Pharos island and the Heptastadion district, with outlying subu...
98: ...et-Tin quarter represents all that is left of the island of Pharos, the site of the actual lighthouse havi...
101: ...ther with the palaces, the "Private Port" and the island of Antirrhodus. There has been a land subsidence ...
117: On the eastern point of the Pharos island stood the '''Great Lighthouse''', one of the "Sev... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...s an approximate area of [[1 E12 m2|2.5 million]] [[square kilometre|km²]] (965 000 [[square...
23: Large [[island]]s in the Mediterranean include:
26: ...za]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Mediterranean
31: ...[[Spain]], [[France]], [[Monaco]], [[Italy]], the island state of [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[...
32: ...(from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], the island state of [[Cyprus]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], the... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
41: When two oceanic plates converge they form an [[island arc]] as one oceanic plate is [[subducted]] below...
139: ...he cause of marine trenches oddly placed just off island arcs or continents and their associated volcanoes... - Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
1: ...aii_lava.jpg|thumb|right|Volcanic flow on the Big Island of Hawaii. Image provided by [http://classroomcli... - Earth (30908 bytes)
44: |[[potassium]]:||align="right"|0||.019 ||%
46: |other elements: ||align="right"|0||.53||%
150: |27 Days, 7 hours, 43.7 minutes
264: ...he world is [[Alert, Nunavut|Alert]], [[Ellesmere Island]], [[Canada]]. The southernmost is the [[Amundsen... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
3: ...0px|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
10: ...e because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the island of [[Martinique]] is another example.
15: ...loor), 120 km in diameter and forms part of the [[Island of Hawai'i]]. [[Olympus Mons]] is a shield volcan...
26: ... in due time break the [[ocean]] surface in new [[island]]s.
56: *[[Mount Erebus]] ([[Ross Island]], [[Antarctica]]) - Mountain (4538 bytes)
5: ... [[volcano]]es, including many apparently small [[island]]s that reach a great height above the ocean floo...
14: ...una Kea]] on [[Hawaii]], whose peak is over 9,000 m above its base on the floor of the [[Pacific ...
18: ...des as a result. Extreme cases are known as [[sky island]]s. - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ... [[square mile|mi²]]) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land area o...
24: ...40 [[square mile|mi<sup>2</sup>]]), including the islands.
107: .... Some areas of Eastern Africa, particularly the island of [[Zanzibar]], received Arab and Asian Muslim s... - North America (12844 bytes)
26: ...smere Island]], [[Baffin Island]], and [[Victoria Island]] in the north)
27: ...|Revillagigedo archipelago]] and numerous smaller islands closer to the coast)
28: ...tes]], most of it – includes the [[Aleutian Islands]], [[Alaska]], but not the US state of [[Hawaii]...
39: ...southeastern end of the continent lies a chain of islands territories called the [[Antilles]], the [[Carib...
57: *[[Cayman Islands]] ([[British Empire|British]] dependency) - South America (5078 bytes)
15: ...e region of South America also includes various [[island]]s, most of which belong to countries on the cont...
21: ... table are [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]] which have no permanent inhabitants, only temp...
60: | style="text-align:left;" | [[Falkland Islands]] (UK) - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
32: ...s not cut through any piece of land, continent or island, which is the northern limit of the Antarctic tre...
40: *[[Norway]]: [[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the onl...
43: ...s west, except for the Norwegian claim to Peter I Island (see above).
52: [[image:PALMERPENGUINB.JPG|225px|thumb|right|Palmer Station]]
58: * [[Bellingshausen Station]], [[King George Island]] ({{coor dms|62|11|47|S|58|57|39|W|}}) {{flag|Ru... - Australia (39438 bytes)
9: capital =[[Canberra]]|
48: ...ralian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] and [[Torres Strait Islander]] peoples. Eastern Australia was claimed by the...
50: ...r by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
54: ...f New Holland'', in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia o...
63: ...lly [[Melanesia]]n, inhabited the [[Torres Strait Islands]] and parts of far north [[Queensland]], they ha... - Indo-Australian Plate (2019 bytes)
5: ...the [[Tonga]] and [[Kermadec Islands|Kermadec]] [[island arc]]s. [[New Zealand]] lies along the southeaste...
9: ...er [[Burma]]) to the south-west of [[Indonesia]]n islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Borneo]]. - Land bridge (3351 bytes)
1: ...necting what are now separate [[continent]]s or [[island]]s. The best-known is the [[Bering land bridge]],...
6: ...[[South American Plate]] to the south, first an [[island arc]], and then continuous dry land have been cre...
13: ...n [[Japan]] (including [[Okinawa]]), [[Sakhalin]] Island, [[Korean Peninsula]], and [[China]]. At the tim... - Africa-Eurasia (1157 bytes)
4: ...metimes it has also been referred as the '''World Island''', especially in [[geopolitics]].
6: ...rld]] includes Africa-Eurasia and its surrounding islands. - Europe (23835 bytes)
11: ...bducted by [[Zeus]] in bull form and taken to the island of [[Crete]], where she gave birth to [[Minos]]. ...
65: ... in the mountains, [[marmot]]s, [[Alpine Ibex|steinbocks]], [[chamois]]es among others.
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113: | width="10px" | - Asia (16910 bytes)
8: ...sion consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby [[island]]s in the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific O...
50: * The [[Pacific Ocean]] islands of [[Taiwan]] and [[Japan]].
60: ...ntains the [[Malay Peninsula]], [[Indochina]] and islands in the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Pacific Ocean]]. T...
64: ...in both Asia and Oceania|some]] of the Indonesian islands also lie in the [[Melanesia]] region of [[Oceani...
66: ...uth China Sea]], and thus has both a mainland and island part. - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
7: ..., The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles) and two island nations in the Atlantic Ocean (Cape Verde and Sao... - Canada (35540 bytes)
52: ...e Edward Island]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
92: ...3-1791)|Province of Quebec]], and [[Prince Edward Island]] (created 1769). To accommodate the Loyalists, B...
96: ...ies of [[British Columbia]] in 1848 and Vancouver Island in 1849. By the late-1850s, politicians in the Pr...
111: ...tion (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 kilo...
117: ...orld's largest tidal variations. [[Prince Edward Island]] is Canada's smallest province. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
83: * [[Christmas Island]] (Australia)
84: * [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] (Australia)
102: * [[Mongolia]] - [[Ulaanbaatar]]
117: * [[Tajikistan]] - [[Dushanbe]]
183: *[[British Virgin Islands]] - [[Road Town]] (United Kingdom) - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...scar is the [[List of islands by size|4th largest island in the world]]. It is the home of five percent of...
53: ...rtuguese]] sea captain [[Diego Dias]] sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet goin...
55: ...important in Madagascar's economy. In return, the island received British military and financial assistanc...
59: ...he [[Japan]]ese. The [[Free French]] received the island from the [[United Kingdom]] in [[1943]].
156: ...map.png|thumb|Map of Madagascar. ''Nosy'' means ''island'' in the Malagasy language.]] - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ... short form) is a country comprising a group of [[island]]s in the South [[Pacific Ocean]]. Previous names...
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33: ...'<br> - Total <br>(Jul 2004 Est.)<br> - [[Population_density|Density]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
57: ...in [[1914]]. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence. - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Image:Myconos 12.jpg|thumb|200px|Windmills on the Island of Myconos, Greece. Image provided by [http://cla...
25: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total<br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked...
27: ...[[Population]]'''<br> - Total ([[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of c...
29: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Declared<br> - Recognised || From the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br/...
31: ...ss Domestic Product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total<br> - GDP per capita - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ... is a [[petroleum]]-rich country located on the [[island]] of [[Borneo]], in [[southeast Asia]]. Apart fro...
19: | align=center colspan=2 | [[image:LocationBrunei.png]]
27: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br /> - % water
31: <br /> - Total ([[2001]])
32: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
1: ...'The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis''' is an island nation in the [[Caribbean]].
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38: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
61: ...on Nevis and spent his childhood there and on the island of [[St. Croix]]. - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
4: ... never controlled [[Taiwan]] and some neighboring islands, which are controlled by the [[Republic of China...
13: ...intang in control of [[Taiwan]] and some outlying islands of [[Fujian]]. On [[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zed...
61: ... U.S. plane struggled to land on China's [[Hainan Island]], where its 24 crewmembers were detained for 12 ...
68: *Over islands on the [[East China Sea]] or [[South China Sea]]...
69: **[[Paracel Islands]], administered by China, claimed by [[Vietnam]]... - Germany (46412 bytes)
89: ...ermany|President]] [[Paul von Hindenburg|von Hindenburg]] appointed [[Adolf Hitler]] [[Chancellor of G...
100: ...ad partitioned [[Berlin]] in front of the [[Brandenburg Gate]] shortly after the reunification]]
170: |'''4''' [[Brandenburg]]||[[Potsdam]]||Brandenburg||Potsdam
178: ...klenburg-Western Pomerania]]||[[Schwerin]]||Mecklenburg-Vorpommern||Schwerin
217: ...uro coins|50 euro cent coin]] featuring the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of division and reunification]] - South Africa (40100 bytes)
102: [[Image:Fynbos.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[fynbos]], a [[floristic province|floral kingdom]] uniq...
103: ...on earth, making it particularly verdant. The [[Fynbos]] [[Biome]], one of the six [[floristic provinc...
144: ...]], who was imprisoned there for 27 years. Robben Island is now a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].]]
152: ...d]]s in the world lying in valleys around [[Stellenbosch]], [[Franschoek]] and [[Paarl]]. - Brazil (12581 bytes)
45: A number of [[island]]s in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] are part of Brazil: - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...es), and is primarily low, with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equa...
3: ...es and [[mangrove]] [[swamp]]s. Some parts of the island's interior are also dotted with large sugarcane e...
5: ...P]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ...lodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
11: ...labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere. - Tanzania (17411 bytes)
38: ... = -Tanganyika<br> -Zanzibar <br> -Merge |
98: ...as Shirazis claims its origins to be the supposed island's early Persian settlers. Non-Africans residing o... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
15: | colspan="2" | [[image:LocationBangladesh.png]]
267: ...;, has often been compared to Indonesia's [[Java (island)|Java]].
333: * [http://www.nbr-bd.org Bangladesh Customs Home Page (National Bo... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
1: ...of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by [[West Timor]].
12: ...on the island of [[Timor]], while the surrounding islands came under [[Netherlands|Dutch]] control.
14: ...rt a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] invasion of the island. When the Japanese landed and drove the [[Allies]...
59: ...ait, to the south the [[Timor Sea]] separates the island from [[Australia]], while to the west lies the In...
92: ...and of Timor, or ''Ilha do Crocodilo'' (Crocodile Island), as it is often called. Like Indonesia, the cult... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
30: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - percent water
33: ...Population]]'''<br> - Total (July 2003) <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Recognised
61: ...gned over the Qatari peninsula from the off-shore island of [[Bahrain]]. Although Qatar was legally a depe... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ore than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] and i...
39: established_events = - Declared<br> - Recognised |
58: ...c of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of Ire...
67: ...mmon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, most ...
71: ...-one's surprise. The remaining 26 counties of the island became the [[Irish Free State]], a [[constitution... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
37: | '''[[Area]]'''<br/> – Total <br/> – % water
38: ...0th]]<br/> [[1 E7 m²|26 km²]]<br/> Negligible
40: ...'''[[Population]]'''<br/> – Total<br/> – [[Density]]
41: ...ed 193rd]]<br/> 11,468 (July 2004 est.)<br/> 441/km²
55: ...o [[New Zealand]], or [[Niue]], a small Pacific [[island]] (independent but associated with New Zealand) t... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...he west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Haiti]...
6: ...] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]], t...
24: ...istorical or political interests in the Caribbean island , some U.S. citizens visit Cuba by traveling thro...
72: ...he [[List of islands by size|world's 16th largest island]].
74: The island consists mostly of flat to rolling plains, with m... - Solomon Islands (9265 bytes)
1: ...wealth of Nations]]. It consists of more than 990 islands, which together cover a land mass of 28,000 squa...
3: |+<big><big>'''Solomon Islands'''</big></big>
8: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Solomon islands flag large.png|125px|]]
9: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Solomon_Islands_coat_of_arms_small.jpg]]
12: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Media:Solomon_Islands_coat_of_arms.gif|Full size]]) - Indonesia (12958 bytes)
37: established_events = - Declared<br/> - Recognised |
56: ... formed on the islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]] from the [[7th century|7th]] to [[14th ce...
58: ...cept for their colony [[Portuguese Timor]] on the island of [[Timor]]). The Netherlands ruled Indonesia a...
124: ...sland of [[New Guinea]] and [[East Timor]] on the island of [[Timor]]. In addition to the capital city of ...
126: ...which was located between [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]]. - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
32: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
36: <br> - Total
37: <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
43: <br> - Date
67: ... of Pennsylvania) and General Venables seized the island in [[1655]]. During its first 200 years of Britis... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
33: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
36: ...ulation]]'''<br> - Total (July 2003 est)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
39: | '''[[Sovereignty]]'''<br> - Autonomy<br> - Independence
59: ...Caribs were eventually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
65: ...nd the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence. - Palau (8171 bytes)
2: ...blic of Palau''' (also spelled '''Belau''') is an island nation in the [[Pacific Ocean]], located some 500...
16: ...top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Rainbow's End ''</font>
29: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
32: ... '''[[Population]]'''<br> - Total (Year)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
56: ...e U.S. broad powers such as control of 51% of the island in time of national emergency. The U.S. especial... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
3: ...nd the second-link bridge]] on the south with the island of [[Singapore]];
5: *[[East Malaysia]], the northern part of the island of [[Borneo]], is bordered to the south by [[Indo...
36: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
39: | '''[[Population]]'''<br> - Total<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
42: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
34: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
37: ...[[Population]]'''<br> - Total ([[2001]])<br> - [[Density]]
99: ...rete bridge (after the liberation in [[1991]] the island was converted into a military base and currently ...
100: The islands are:
101: *[[Auhah Island]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
40: ...arly 15th century, Madeira Island and the Azorean islands were discovered. Henry the Navigator's interest ...
42: ..., leading to the discovery of several uninhabited islands and reaching the [[Congo River]].
94: ...p of the [[list of islands of Portugal|Portuguese islands]].]]
98: ...ps (''Portugal insular''), the Azores and Madeira Islands - the Autonomous regions (''regi?autas'', si... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ... is [[Northern Ireland]], which is located on the island of [[Ireland|Ireland]].
58: ... Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a part of the United Kingdom...
62: ...]] (often also including its smaller neighbouring islands, though never Ireland). Politically, the term Gr...
64: ... the Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the ''Islands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed...
155: ...osovo, Afghanistan, Iraq ([[Operation Granby|''Granby'']], No-Fly-Zones, [[Operation Desert Fox|''Dese... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1:
48: ...ish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] time zone ( [[Coordina...
116: ...NV, IU-ICV, CC and the mixt group -BNG, CHA, EA y NB- supported it with a total of 192 votes, while th...
132: * [[Balearic Islands]] (''Illes Balears'' in [[Catalan language|Catal...
134: * [[Canary Islands]] (''Islas Canarias'') - Marshall Islands (8760 bytes)
1: ...cronesia]] and south of the U.S. island of [[Wake Island|Wake]].
3: ...;kin M̧ajeļ<br>Republic of the Marshall Islands'''</big></big>
7: ...| [[Image:Wikipedia flag republic of the marshall islands.png|122px|]]
8: ...ll_Islands_COA.gif|110px|Coat of arms of Marshall Islands]]
10: ...dth="140px" colspan="2" | ([[Flag of the Marshall Islands|In Detail]])
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