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Ambtenaar ("government official"), by Louis Dusée, Utrecht, 1961. An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private).
On the other extreme, Bolivia officially recognizes 37 languages, the most of any country in the world. Second to Bolivia is India with 22 official languages . South Africa is the country with the third lead with 12 official languages that all have equal status; [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Bolivia gives primacy to Spanish , and India gives primacy to English ...
In law and government, de jure (/ d eɪ ˈ dʒ ʊər i, d i-,-ˈ jʊər-/; Latin: [deː ˈjuːre]; lit. ' by law ') describes practices that are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
Massachusetts is officially named The Commonwealth of Massachusetts by its constitution. The name State of Massachusetts Bay was used in all acts and resolves up to 1780 and in the first draft of the constitution. The current name can be traced to the second draft of the state constitution, which was written by John Adams and ratified in 1780. [14]
It will be noted that the committee uses the term "president-elect" in its generally accepted sense, as meaning the person who has received the majority of electoral votes, or the person who has been chosen by the House of Representatives in the event that the election is thrown into the House.
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Today it is officially called "Ciudad de México, México" abbreviated CDMX, Mexico. The official name of the country is the "United Mexican States" ( Spanish : Estados Unidos Mexicanos ), since it is a federation of thirty-two states .
The name euro was officially adopted on 16 December 1995 in Madrid. [15] The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743 at the time). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making ...