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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

(Encyclopedia)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: see Great Britain. ...

trusteeship, territorial

(Encyclopedia)trusteeship, territorial, system of UN control for territories that were not self-governing. It replaced the mandates of the League of Nations. Provided for under chapters 12 and 13 of the Charter of ...

Hagåtña

(Encyclopedia)Hagåtña ägäˈnyä [key], city (2020 pop. 943), capital of the island of Guam, W Pacific, in the Mariana Islands. ...

Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments, tablenational parks and monuments, table. ...

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

(Encyclopedia)Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table). ...

Londonderry, city, Northern Ireland

(Encyclopedia)Londonderry: see Derry.

Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, Territory of

(Encyclopedia)Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, Territory of: see Heard Island. ...

Charles, king of Great Britian and Northern Ireland

(Encyclopedia)Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George), 1948–, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2022–), eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Bri...

Pacific Ocean

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Pacific Ocean, largest and deepest ocean, c.70,000,000 sq mi (181,300,000 sq km), occupying about one third of the earth's surface; named by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan; the southern part i...