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  2. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (official, English), Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (official, Spanish), Porto Rico (archaic, English), Associated Free State of Puerto Rico (non-official literal translation to English of the official Spanish name), Boriquén or Borinquén (Spanish transliteration of Taíno name used colloquially), Isla del ...

  3. List of regional nicknames - Wikipedia

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    People born in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo are called this nickname Carioca (Brazil) A person from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Candango (Brazil) Nickname given to construction workers, who came mainly from the Brazilian Northeast, who worked in the construction of Brasília. [citation needed] Catracho (Central America) A person from ...

  4. Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador, [a] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [b] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland.

  5. How Every State Got Its Nickname - AOL

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    The nickname was used as a point of pride by soldiers during the Civil War — upending the negative connotation it once had — and stuck like tar from then on. Ryan R./Yelp North Dakota: The ...

  6. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  7. Flag of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Placed in the canton, the Ecuador flag is shown with three even stripes, while the rest of the flag is colored olive green. The use of the Ecuador flag was described by the Palestina government as "unity with the motherland" and olive green represents progress. [24] Loja Province adopted a flag in 1963 that copied the design of the national flag.

  8. Loco (nickname) - Wikipedia

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    As a nickname, Loco or El Loco may refer to: . Sebastián Abreu (born 1976), Uruguayan footballer; Willie Alexander (born 1943), American singer and keyboard player; Daniel Barrera Barrera, Colombian drug lord arrested in 2012

  9. IMF board completes Ecuador review, allowing for release of ...

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    The IMF on Thursday said its executive board completed the first review of an extended fund facility for Ecuador, allowing for an immediate disbursement of around $500 million. In a statement, the ...