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No directly set terms; however, they must maintain the support of the House of Commons, which by statute has a term of four years. Governor General: No set terms; appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Traditionally serves for one 5-year term alternating between Anglophone and Francophone appointees. Chile: President
The Pacific Pumas, a political and economic grouping of countries along Latin America's Pacific coast that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The term references the four larger Pacific Latin American emerging markets that share common trends of positive growth, stable macroeconomic foundations, improved governance and an openness to ...
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity).
A request that this article title be changed to List of gentilics for countries and nations is under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents .
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Seamounts have an average area of 790 km 2 (310 sq mi), with the smallest seamounts found in the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Black Seas; whilst the largest mean seamount size, 890 km 2 (340 sq mi), occurs in the Indian Ocean. The largest seamount has an area of 15,500 km 2 (6,000 sq mi) and it occurs in the North Pacific.
Countries and territories are also grouped non-geographically into selected economic and other sets, such as the landlocked developing countries, the least developed countries, and the Small Island Developing States. Antarctica is the only continental region which does not comprise any geographical subregions or country-level areas.