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| Caracas, Federal Presidential Republic, Petroleum |
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| Kabul, Islamic Republic, Poppy Derived Drugs |
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| Naypyidaw, Military Junta, 2nd largest producer of OPIUM, Aung San Suu Kyi (last freely elected President, woman, political prisoner) |
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| Lusaka, Republic, Copper Mining, Probs: Poverty/AIDS. Official Language: English (ORIGINALLY CALLED NORTHERN RHODESIA) |
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| Harare, Consociationalist republic (Mugabe); Mineral exports, |
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| Tripoli; Jamahiriya (Third Nat. way) (Qadahfi); Oil; Gov is mix of Islam and Socialism (1st way, Democ, 2nd, Socialism) Pan Am Flight 103 |
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| Khartoum; Authoritarian Democracy (Omar al-Bashir); Agriculture; Darfor, BASHIR (did a lot of bad stuff to Chad; 1st or 2nd most wanted man dead) THIS ARAB COUNTRY IS ISLAM |
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| Islamabad; Semi-presidential federal democratic republic; Service Sector; Jena and Ghandi led partition between India and Pakistan; Kashmere is a prob between the two, claimed by both sides, led to 3 major battles |
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| Malabo, Presidential Republic, Oil |
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| Ljubljana, Parliamentary Republic, Trading, CATHOLIC (bc of Jesuits, also had latin letters); Ugoslavia (means South in slavic language) |
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| Suriname (originally Dutch Guyana) |
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| Paramaribo, Constitutional Democracy, Bauxite Industry, independence from the Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1975, Was an Englsih territory until traded, 27% of people are hindu (because Brits made YinDuRen mine for the ) |
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| Tashikent, Presidential REpublic, Agriculture ("stan" means "land") Independence, Sept. 1, 1991; Has many Russians (bc Soviet Union put Russians in the Surrounding Republics to make most of the population Russian), The Baltic states WERE THE FIRST ONES TO REVOLT AGAINST SOVIET UNION) |
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Tibilisi, Unitary semi-presidential republic, Oil and Service, Independence from Soviets in 1991,
Big Natural border (caucus Mountains) between Georgia and Russia, Most famous guy from here is STALIN |
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| Abu Dhabi (island capital), Federal Constitutional Monarchy, Petroleum & Nat. Gas, independence from UK; Dec 2, 1971; 7 emarates, has strait of Hormuz, on news because that’s where Oil is shipped through (from Persian Gulf), Iran threatens to destroy it and stop Oil from getting out to America (would be a declaration of war),Ethnic Composition: 45% is from India and surrounding areas (the sub-continent), The 45% were hard workers who were brought in to do the work of the UAE |
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| Georgetown, Semi-Presidential Republic, Agriculture/Bauxite, Independence from UK, 5/26/1966, |
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| Belmopan, Parliamentary Democracy, Agriculture, Independence: Sept. 21, 1981 (from UK) |
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| Mogadishu, Coalition Gov. Agriculture (livestock), Independence from UK and Italy (June 26 & July 1 1960) |
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