Search results for "List of countries by system of government" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This ...
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  • Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...
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  • List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List ...
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  • body. UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General ... investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist ...
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  • The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...
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  • A national library is a library specifically established by the government ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...
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  • ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...
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  • to Find Out. is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency ... The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government ...
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  • Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...
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  • to value") is a tax based on the value of a transaction or of property ... when property is purchased, in the form of a sales tax or value added ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... With respect to governmental information, a government distinguishes ...
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  • ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... from the more pejorative term apparatchik by position. Apparatchik refers ...
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  • Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... together in a community that is created out of the village, clan, and region ...
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  • | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... for project evaluation are highly valued by some, and have been adopted ...
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  • world, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. ... It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ...
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  • , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...
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  • Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...
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  • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...
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  • Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... This is not an automatic right of an individual, nor is any state ...
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  • The Saint Lawrence River and Seaway System is a large hydrographic ... east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ...
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  • Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Oceania was divided into Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia by the ...
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  • discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...
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  • as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing ... protect domestic industries and as a source of revenue. Methods for accomplishing ...
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  • , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • under equipped police force, in 1948, to one of the world's most advanced ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...
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  • political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...
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  • Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...
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  • called informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute is, historically ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...
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  • provide telecommunication links between countries. The first such cables ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...
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  • The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...
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  • ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...
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  • is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
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  • An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a spaceflight program ... were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the ...
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  • Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains ... back into the wild. Both under the rule of the Inca and today, vicuñas ...
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  • Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...
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  • The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...
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  • The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... Mozambique is still recovering from the destruction wrought by nearly ...
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  • Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...
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  • [[Image:Fuggerkontor.jpg|thumb|200px| A painting of an early business ... to carry out activities for the purpose of generating revenue. It involves ...
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  • Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...
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  • city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... almost total control over the political system and has discouraged political ...
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  • Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...
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  • Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... States and most continental European countries, civil rights laws are ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...
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  • Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... Lobbying, which is inevitable in any political system, has received ...
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