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"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of Republic of India.The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Western Zonal Council Administrative division includes the states of Goa, Gujarat, and Maharashtra along with the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, [1] while the Ministry of Culture and some historians also include the state of ...
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
West Indian Americans of the civilian employed population 16 years and over were 1,549,890. 32.6% were employed in Management, business, science, and arts occupations, 28.5% in Service occupations, 22.2% in Sales and office occupations, 6.1% in Natural resources, construction and maintenance occupations and 10.5% in Production, transportation ...
The West Indies Federation, [1] [2] also known as the West Indies, [3] [4] the Federation of the West Indies [5] or the West Indian Federation, [6] [7] [8] was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States. Legal/Statistical Area Description [2]
Carol City, Florida; Coconut Creek, Florida; Coral Springs, Florida; Cutler Bay, Florida; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Hallandale Beach, Florida; Hialeah, Florida