Islands
An island or isle is any piece of subcontinental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. An island may be described as such, despite the presence of an …
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PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 21 November 2024 English
the localities of the two provinces [Lac and Hadjer-Lamis] but more severely in the villages and islands of the Lac Province. [...] Some fishermen are also affected, but the majority of the displaced people …
Hadjer-Lamis] but more severely in the villages and islands of the Lac Province. The displaced are mainly farmers …
WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English
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archipelago comprises 1,192 islands located in the Indian Ocean, of which 187 islands are inhabited. The geography … Demography Maldives is an archipelago comprising 1192 islands located in the Indian Ocean, with an Exclusive … miles). At present, about 430 out of the 1192 islands are used for economic activities and human settlement … which a total of 18719 islands are officially declared as inhabited islands and 79 are leased for long-term … with over 160 “one-island-one-resort” or resort islands.20 On average, an island covers 1–2 square kilometres …
WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English
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experience working across Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the USA. At the SoPH she served as principal …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 French
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Data for Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Cook Islands and Niue are not included. – Les données pour la …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 French
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Data for Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Cook Islands and Niue are not included. – Les données pour la …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 14 November 2024 English
Introduction Trade has played a crucial role in China’s growth, particularly since its economic reforms beginning in the late 1970s. Over the subsequent three decades, China transformed from a closed, …
on Agalega Island, part of Mauritius’s Chagos islands, featuring a new jetty and airstrip.50 This development …
WPI Economics · 14 November 2024 English
Prior to the pandemic, it created 1.6 million jobs and contributed £120 billion in GVA to the UK economy.2 However, that pales in comparison to the role of the sector …
countries in the world weighted by GDP are mostly islands. Whilst the aviation industry plays an important … countries tracked by the IATA rankings tend to be islands as these geographies are both more reliant on and …
Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English
The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and …
the US Treasury to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In addition to subsidizing a large share of the …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. While it has its own government and constitution … estimated rates of poverty among the nine small remote islands (PIC93) covered in the World Bank Regional Partnership … Kiribati, Republic of Nauru, Republic of The Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau … Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 13 November 2024 English
As the United States and the ROK prepare to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of their security and defense alliance in 2025, forging a durable technology alliance is going to become …
Peninsula, Sino-Japanese conflict over the Senkaku Islands (which China also claims), or Chinese military …
