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(Spanish for "Island of Enchantment") [5] Puerto Rico does not have an official bird. In 2001 the legislature passed a bill designating the pitirre ( Tyrannus dominicensis ), but the governor vetoed the bill because although native to it is not endemic to Puerto Rico.
Use: Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: December 22, 1895; 129 years ago () by pro-independence members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico exiled in New York City; members identified colors as red, white, and blue but did not specify color shades; some historians have presumed members adopted light blue shade based on the light blue flag of the ...
Solomon Islands Solomon Aelan: Honiara Honiala: English Neo-Solomonic: Somalia: Mogadishu: Soomaaliya aş-Şūmāl الصومال: Muqdisho Maqadīshū مقديشو: Somali Arabic (Arabic script) South Africa: Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital), Bloemfontein, (judicial capital) South Africa Suid-Afrika iNingizimu ...
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
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It is officially known both as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and as the Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, which translates to Free Associated State of Puerto Rico. The island’s non-state ...
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ... Flag of Puerto Rico. Flag ...
Coat of arms of CRPR, representing an independent Republic of Puerto Rico, features, atop the motto Patria y Libertad (Homeland and Liberty), the flag of Puerto Rico, the island in front of a rising sun, the three red (blood of warriors) and two white (peace after independence) stripes of the flag, and the lion of the Spanish Kingdom being ...