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In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...
The first three digits of the postal code are required; the last two or three digits are optional. Codes are known as yóu dì qū hào (郵遞區號), and are also assigned to Senkaku Islands (Diaoyutai), though Japanese-administered, Pratas Island and the Spratly Islands. NNN-NNN 3+3 digit codes were launched on March 3, 2020.
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
sea level 63 m 207 ft Bahrain: Mountain of Smoke (Jabal ad Dukhan) 134 m 440 ft Persian Gulf: sea level 122 m 400 ft Bangladesh: Saka Haphong: 1063 m 3,488 ft Bay of Bengal: sea level 1063 m 3,488 ft Barbados: Mount Hillaby: 340 m 1,115 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 336 m 1,102 ft Belarus: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara: 345 m 1,132 ft Neman: 90 m 295 ft
The Administrative Divisions of the Maldives refers to the various units of government that provide local government services in the Maldives.According to the Decentralization Act 2010, the administrative divisions of the Maldives would consist of atolls, islands, and cities; each administered by their own local council, under the basic terms of home rule.
Marshall Islands: 0.731 6 Fiji: 0.729 7 Samoa: 0.702 Medium human development: 8 Nauru: 0.698 9 Tuvalu: 0.653 10 Micronesia: 0.634 11 Kiribati: 0.628 12 Vanuatu: 0.607 13 Papua New Guinea: 0.568 14 Solomon Islands: 0.562
As of the 2010 census, four U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) had educational attainment numbers below every U.S. state (and the District of Columbia). In the U.S. Virgin Islands, 68.9% had attained a high school degree or higher; in American Samoa, 9.9% had attained a bachelor's ...