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Local official names should be listed before other alternate names if they differ from a widely accepted English name. Other relevant language names may appear in alphabetic order of their respective languages – i.e., (Estonian: Soome laht; Finnish: Suomenlahti; Russian: Финский залив, Finskiy zaliv; Swedish: Finska viken).
Official English-language demonyms are established by the United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO); [1] however, many other terms are in common use. Map of state demonyms of the United States of America colored by suffix
For future elections of uncertain date, use the format "Next [country name or adjectival form] [type] election(s)", such as Next Irish general election. When the year of the election is known, titles like this should redirect to an article title with a year (such as 2016 Irish general election ), because "next" is a moving target.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Changes in romanisation systems can result in minor or major changes in spelling in the Roman alphabet for geographical entities, even without any change in name pronunciation or spelling in the local alphabet or other writing system. Names in non-Roman characters can also be spelled very differently when Romanised in different European languages.
The Dictionary is based both on face-to-face interviews with 2,777 people carried out in 1,002 communities across the country between 1965 and 1970, and on a large collection of print and (recently) electronic materials, including diaries, letters, novels, histories, biographies, government documents, and newspapers. [4]
Name Countries English equivalents amphoe Thailand: district Amt Germany: county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle") amt Denmark: county (replaced with regions in 2007) amt Norway: county (formerly; the modern term is fylke) apskritis Lithuania: county anakhett Cambodia: prefecture arrondissement Netherlands
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...