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(Encyclopedia)  CE5 Ireland, Republic of, Gaelic, Eire, republic (2015 est. pop. 4,700,000), 27,136 sq mi (70,282 sq km). It occupies all but the northeastern corner of the island of Ireland in the British Isles. ...

(Encyclopedia)  CE5 Central African Republic, republic (2020 est. pop. 4,829,767), 240,534 sq mi (622,983 sq km), central Africa. The landlocked nation is bordered b...

(Encyclopedia) Isabela ēsäbāˈlä [key], ruins of a town on the north shore of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic, at the base of Cape Isabela. Believed to have been founded by Columbus (c.1494), it was one of...

(Encyclopedia) Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Mari El. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mordvinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Mordovia, Russia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kingstown, borough, Republic of Ireland: see Dún Laoghaire. ...

(Encyclopedia) Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic: see Karelia, Russia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Morava môrˈävä [key], Ger. March, river, c.240 mi (390 km) long, rising in the Sudetes, N Czech Republic, and flowing generally S past Olomouc into the Danube River, W of Bratislava. It is navigab...

(Encyclopedia) Longford, town (1991 pop. 6,393), seat of Co. Longford, N central Republic of Ireland, on the Camlin River. It is primarily a farm market. The Roman Catholic bishopric of Ardagh and Clonmacnois is the...

(Encyclopedia) Mari El mäˈrē ĕlˈ [key], constituent republic (1990 pop. 760,000), c.8,900 sq mi (23,100 sq km), E central European Russia, in the middle Volga valley. Yoshkar-Ola is the capital. The region is a...