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Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS ACP African Caribbean Pacific Adm. Admiral Adv. Advocate a.i. ad interim b. born bbls. barrels bd board bn. billion (one thousand million) Brig. Brigadier bu. bushel Cdr Commander CFA Communauté Financière Africaine CFP Comptoirs Français du Pacifique c.i.f. cost, insurance, freight C.-in-C. Commander-in-Chief CIS Commonwealth of Independent States cu. cubic CUP Cambridge University Press cwt hundredweight D. Democratic Party DWT dead weight tonnes ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States EEA European Economic Area EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone EMS European Monetary System EMU European Monetary Union ERM Exchange Rate Mechanism f.o.b. free on board FDI foreign direct investment ft foot/feet FTE full-time equivalent G8 Group Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Russia GDP gross domestic product Gen. General GNI gross national income GNP gross national product GRT gross registered tonnes GW gigawatt GWh gigawatt hours ha hectare(s) HDI Human Development Index ind. independent(s) ICT information and communication technology ISO International Organization for Standardization (domain names) K kindergarten kg kilogramme(s) kl kilolitre(s) 2030 ABBREVIATIONS km kilometre(s) kW kilowatt kWh kilowatt hours lat. latitude lb pound(s) (weight) Lieut. Lieutenant long. longitude m. million Maj. Major MW megawatt MWh megawatt hours n.e.c. not elsewhere classified NRT net registered tonnes NTSC National Television System Committee (525 lines 60 fields) OUP Oxford University Press oz ounce(s) PAL Phased Alternate Line (625 lines 50 fields 4·43 MHz sub-carrier) PAL M Phased Alternate Line (525 lines 60 PAL 3·58 MHz sub-carrier) PAL N Phased Alternate Line (625 lines 50 PAL 3·58 MHz sub-carrier) PAYE Pay-As-You-Earn PPP Purchasing Power Parity R. Republican Party Rt Hon. Right Honourable SADC Southern African Development Community SDR Special Drawing Rights SECAM H Sequential Couleur avec Mémoire (625 lines 50 fields Horizontal) SECAM V Sequential Couleur avec Mémoire (625 lines 50 fields Vertical) sq. square SSI Supplemental Security Income TAFE technical and further education TEU twenty-foot equivalent units trn. trillion (one million million) TV television Univ. University VAT value-added tax v.f.d value for duty 2031 PLACE AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INDEX PLACE AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INDEX Italicized page numbers refer to extended entries An * denotes a further reference in the addenda, pages xxix–xxx Aachen 691, 704, 727 Adabeya 577 Agrigento 959 Al-Dawr 909 Aalborg 535, 542, Adamaoua 350 Agrihan 1965 Al-Dhalia 2012 543 Adamawa 1247, 1253 Aguascalientes 1137, Al Ghardaqah 575 Aalst 274 Adamstown 1755 1138 Al Ghwayriyah 1337 Aargau 1554, 1555, Adana 1608, 1613 Aguijan 1965 Al-Hillah 910 1560 Addis Ababa 602, Ahal 1616 Al Hoceima 1166 Aarhus 535, 542, 543 603, 605, 606 Ahmadi 1020 Al-Jafarah 1057 Aarlen see Arlon Adelaide 173, 175, Ahmadnagar 812, 855 Al-Jayli 1528 Aba 1248 176, 185, 197, 208, Ahmedabad 812, 819, al-Jaza’ir see Algiers Abaco 245 211 824, 825, 840 Al-Jofra 1057 Abadan 900, 901 Aden 68, 2011, 2012, Ahuachapán 580 Al Jumayliyah 1337 Abaiang 999 2013, 2014, 2015, Ahvaz 900 Al-Kamishli 1564 Abakaliki 1248 2016 Ahvenanmaa see Al Kharija 573 Abakan 1371 Adi Ugri 590 Åland Al Khour 1337 Abancay 1303 Adilabad 828 Aiken 1933 Al Khums 1059 Abariringa see Adityapur 847 Ailinglaplap 1124 Al-Kofra 1057 Kanton Adıyaman 1608 Ain Defla 139 Al-Kut 910 Abbotsford 358, 375, Adjaria 681, 686–7 Ain Témouchent 139 Al-Marj 1057 378 Ado-Ekiti 1248 Aïoun el Atrouss Al-Morqib 1057 Abéché 421, 424 Adoni 828 1126, 1129 Al-Muthanna 910 Abemama 999 Adrar (Algeria) 139 Airdrie (Alberta) 372 al-Obeid 1525 Abengourou 496 Adrar (Mauritania) Aisén del Gral. al-Oued 140 Abeokuta 1247, 1248 1126 Carlos Ibáñez del al-Qadarif 1525 Aberdeen (Scotland) Adygeya 1365 Campo 427 Al-Qadisiyah 910 1651, 1669, 1705, Aegean Islands region Ait-Ben-Haddou 1169 Al Qal’a of Beni 1706, 1707, 1708, (Greece) 746 Aitutaki 1231 Hammad 144 1711, 1712 Aetolia and Acarnania Aix-en-Provence 629, Al-Qoba 1057 Aberdeen (South 746 630, 645 Al Rayyan 1337 Dakota) 1934, 1936 Afar 602 Aizawl 825, 861, 862 Al Shamal 1337 Aberdeenshire 1705 Afghanistan 125–32 Ajaccio 629 Al-Wahad 1057 Aberystwyth 1716, —in world Ajanta 826 Al Wakra 1337 1717 organizations 12, Ajloun 981 Alabama 1767, 1776, Abia 1247, 1248 60, 76, 82, 89, 110, Ajman 1640, 1641 1778, 1793, Abidjan 496, 497, 113 Ajmer 812, 842, 870, 1808–11 499, 500, 501, 772 African Development 871 Alagoas 314 Abilene 1769, 1940, Bank 93 Akashi 969 Alajuela 491, 494 1943 African Export– Akershus 1255 Alamagan 1965 Abkhazia 681, 685–6 Import Bank 93 Akita 969 Alamosa 1827 Abohar 867 African Union 93–4 Akjoujt 1126 Åland 63, 616 Aboisso 497 Afyon 1608 Akmola see Astana Alania see North Abomey 287, 291 Agadez 1241 Akola 812, 855, 857 Ossetia Abqaiq 1409 Agadir 1165, 1166, Akouta 1243 Alappuzha 812 Abruzzi 950 1168 Akranes 801 Alaska 1765, 1767, Abu Dhabi 1640, Agalega 1131 Akron 1915, 1917 1771, 1776, 1777, 1641, 1642, 1643, Agaña see Hagåtña Akrotiri 70, 1735, 1778, 1792, 1793, 1644 Agartala 825, 875, 1759 1800, 1804, 1805, Abu Mena 579 876 Aksaray 1608 1811–14 Abuja 1246, 1247, Agatti Island 889 Aksaz-Karaa#aç 1610 Álava 1505, 1506 1248 Agboville 496 Aksum 606 Alba 1343 Abyan 2012 Agege 1248 Aktau 990 Alba Iulia 1343 Açâba 1126 Agency for the Akure 1247, 1248 Albacete 1505, 1506 Acajutla 581, 583 Prohibition of Akureyri 801, 805 Albania 133–8 Acapulco de Juárez Nuclear Weapons in Akwa Ibom 1247 —in European 1138 Latin America and Akyab 1178, 1179 organizations 55, Accra 739, 740, 741, the Caribbean Al Ain 1643, 1644 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 743 99–100 Al-Amarah 910 65 Aceh 891, 892 Aggeneys 1500 Al-Anbar 910 —in other Achaia 747 Aghios Nikolaos 746 Al Arish 573 organizations 9, 12, Achalpur 856 Agin-Buryat 1374 Al-Ayn 1271 76, 78, 82, 84, 85, Acklins 245 Aginskoe 1374 Al-Basrah 909, 910, 89 Acre (Brazil) 314 Agnéby 496 913, 914 Albany (New York) Acre (Israel) 943 Agra 812, 826, 842, Al-Batan 1057 1906, 1907, 1908 Ad-Diwaniyah 910 878 al-Bayadh 139 Albany (Western Ada 1921 A#ri 1608 Al-Buni 140 Australia) 221 2035 PLACE AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INDEX Alberobello 959 Alofi (Niue) 1234, Amritsar 809, 810, Angus 1705 Alberta 356, 357, 1235 812, 824, 867, 868 Anhui 436, 448 359, 363, 369, 370, Alofi (Wallis and Amroha 877 Anjouan see Nzwani 371, 371–4 Futuna) 668 Amstelveen 1200 Ankara 1607, 1608, Albina 1531 Alor Setar 1099, 1104 Amsterdam 1199, 1609, 1613 Albuquerque 1768, Alost see Aalst 1200, 1201, 1205, Ankeny 1856 1903, 1904 Alotau 1292 1207, 1209, 1210 Anklesvar 839 Alcalá de Henares Alphen a/d Rijn 1200 Amsterdam Island Ann Arbor 1876, 1506, 1515 Alphonse 1433 667, 668 1878 Alcobendas 1506 Alsace 628, 629, 689 Amtimam 421 Annaba 139, 140, Alcorcón 1506 Alta 1264 An Giang 2003 141, 143 Aldabra 1433, 1437, Alta Verapaz 759 An-Najaf 910 Annamalainagar 875 1741 Altai 1363, 1366 An-Nasiriyah 910 Annapolis 1870, 1871 Aldeburgh 1696 Altamira 1143 Anaconda-Deer Annecy 630 Alderney 1729, 1730, Alto Alentejo 1330 Lodge County 1888 Annemasse 630 1734 Alto Paraguay 1298 Anadyr 1374 Annobón 585 Aleg 1126 Alto Paraná 1298 Anaheim 1768, 1821 Anping 466 Alegranza 1506 Alto Trás os Montes Anambra 1247 Ansan 1005 Alentejo 1329, 1330 1329 Anand 839 Anse-la-Raye 1385 Alentejo Central 1330 Alva 1920 Anantapur 828, 830 Anseba 590 Alentejo Litoral 1330 Alwar 812 Ancash 1303 Anshan 437 Aleppo 1564, 1567, Alytus 1067 Anchorage (Alaska) Antalya 1608, 1613 1568 Amadora 1330 1768, 1811, 1812, Antananarivo 1088, Ålesund 1256 Amagasaki 969 1813 1091 Alexander Bay 1500 Amambay 1298 Anchorage (Cook Antarctic Treaty 121 Alexandria (Egypt) Amapá 314 Islands) see Antigua and Barbuda 572, 573, 575, 577 Amapala 786 Suwarrow 155–8 Alexandria Amarillo 1769, 1940 Ancón 1289 —in world (Louisiana) 1867 Amasya 1608 Ancona 950 organizations 12, Alexandria (Romania) Amazonas (Brazil) Andalusia 1505, 68, 100, 101, 102, 1343 314 1506, 1507, 1515 103, 104, 106, 108 Alexandria (Virginia) Amazonas (Colombia) Andaman and Antigua Guatemala 1769, 1949 468 Nicobar Islands 763 Alexandroupolis 747 Amazonas (Peru) 812, 815, 817, 825, Antioquia 468 Alfred 1908 1303 828, 882, 883–4 Antipodes Islands Algarve 1329, 1330, Amazonas Andean Community 1218, 1229 1334 (Venezuela) 1997 100–1, 109 Antofagasta 299, 427, Algeciras 1506, 1513 Ambala 841, 842, 867 Andean Development 428, 432 Algeria* 85, 139–45 Ambato 567 Corporation 106 Antrim 1719 —and European Ambohimanga 1092 Anderson 1853 Antsiranana 1088, organizations 46, Amboina 892, 896 Andhra Pradesh 811, 1091 60, 62 Ambronay 645 812, 814, 825, Antwerp see —in world Ambrym 1991 828–30 Antwerpen organizations 8, 12, America see United Andijon see Andizhan Antwerpen 274, 280, 67, 76, 82, 89, 93, States of America Andizhan 1985, 1988 281, 1210 106, 116, 117, 118, American Samoa 115, Andorra 12, 55, 57, Anuradhapura 1520, 119, 120 1765, 1767, 1776, 60, 78, 146–8 1523 Algiers 139, 140, 141, 1777, 1970–2 Andorra la Vella 146 Anvers see 143, 144 Amersfoort 1200, Andros 245 Antwerpen Alhucemas 1506 1201 Androth Island 889 Anyang 1005 Ali-Sabieh 550 Ames 1856, 1858 Anegada 1742, 1743 Anzoátegui 1997 Alibori 287 Amhara 602 Aného 1590 Aoba 1991 Alicante 1505, 1506, Amherst Aneityum 1991 Aomori 969, 978 1512 (Massachusetts) Angarpota 256 Aozou Strip 421 Alice Springs 185, 1875 Angeles 1311 Apapa 1249 195, 197, 211 Amherst (Nova Angers 630, 642 Apeldoorn 1200, 1201 Aligarh 812, 826 Scotia) 388 Angkor 349 Apia 1393, 1395 Alipur Duar 880 Amiens 629, 630, 644 Anglesey, Isle of Apodaca 1138 Alkmaar 1200 Amindivi Islands
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