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  2. Education in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Nanyang Model High School in Shanghai, China, one of the oldest public secondary schools in Asia The Nakano Junior and Senior High School Attached to Meiji University, an example of an affiliation of primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions common in China, Japan, and Korea.

  3. List of continent name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The continent of America is thought to be named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (who styled himself Americus Vespucius in Latin).Amerigo Vespucci was named after Saint Emeric of Hungary, who was in turn named for his maternal uncle, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II.

  4. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the ...

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    This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).

  5. Nusantara (term) - Wikipedia

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    The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...

  6. Bangka Belitung Islands - Wikipedia

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    In 1999 also stands Bakti Accounting Academy founded by Yayasan Pendidikan Bakti. In Belitung Island a number of educational observers in 1999 established the Belitung Management Academy. STIE IBEK Babel was also present to enliven the world of higher education in Bangka which was established in 2000 located in Pangkalpinang City with majoring ...

  7. Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).

  8. Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Oceania (UK: / ˌ oʊ s i ˈ ɑː n i ə, ˌ oʊ ʃ i-,-ˈ eɪ n-/ OH-s(h)ee-AH-nee-ə, -⁠ AY-, US: / ˌ oʊ ʃ i ˈ æ n i ə,-ˈ ɑː n-/ ⓘ OH-shee-A(H)N-ee-ə) [5] is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

  9. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    For example, French language is translated as bahasa Prancis, and the same applies to other languages, such as bahasa Inggris (English), bahasa Jepang (Japanese), bahasa Arab (Arabic), bahasa Italia (Italian), and so on. Indonesians generally may not recognize the name Bahasa alone when it refers to their national language. [21]