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Nippon (official, English), (日本) (official, Japanese), Nihon (alternate, more common reading of 日本 in Japanese), Yamato (大和) or Wa (倭) (historic, ancient Japan, derogatory), Ōyashima (大八洲) (meaning the country of eight great islands, historic), Cipangu/Zipangu or Gipangu (appeared in The Travels of Marco Polo in the 13th ...
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents.A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
Memorial in Poynings parish church, West Sussex, to Sir Alexander Ball, the first British civil commissioner of Malta. The British took possession of Malta in 1800, defeating an unpopular French garrison that had taken possession of the islands two years earlier. Malta remained under British control until the end of the Treaty of Paris of 1814.
Malta's old-age-dependency-ratio rose from 17.2 percent in 1995 to 19.8 percent in 2005, reasonably lower than the EU's 24.9 percent average; 31.5 percent of the Maltese population is aged under 25 (compared to the EU's 29.1 percent); but the 50–64 age group constitutes 20.3 percent of the population, significantly higher than the EU's 17.9 ...
The geography of Malta is dominated by water. Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone , located in Europe , in the Mediterranean Sea , 81 kilometres south of Sicily , Italy , [ 1 ] and nearly 300 km north (Libya) and northeast (Tunisia) of Africa .
Great Britain: 229,048: 88,745 ... Largest island of Europe. Largest island of the United Kingdom (73% of the state area) 2: Iceland: ... Just 0.02 km 2 smaller than ...
It gained independence from the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth realm in 1964, and became a republic in 1974. Malta is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the only microstate to be a full member of the European Union. Roman Catholicism is the official state religion. Monaco: None (city-state) 2.02 km 2 (0.78 sq mi)
Despite the results approving further integration with the UK, the low turnout allowed the opposition to claim that the result was inconclusive. [6] There were also concerns expressed by some British MPs that the representation of Malta at Westminster would set a precedent for other colonies, and influence the outcome of general elections. [7]