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(Encyclopedia) Freeport, city, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. A popular resort area, it developed out of a 1955 agreement between the Bahamian colonial government and a...

(Encyclopedia) Acklins Island: see Bahamas.

(Encyclopedia) Crooked Island: see Bahamas.

(Encyclopedia) Andros Island: see Bahamas.

(Encyclopedia) Salvador, El: see El Salvador.

(Encyclopedia) San Vicente sän vēsānˈtā [key], city (1993 pop. 28,529), central El Salvador. Among its industries are textile manufacturing and sugar milling. San Vicente is the commercial center of a region th...

(Encyclopedia)  CE5 El Salvador ĕl sälväᵺōrˈ [key], officially Republic of El Salvador, republic (2021 est. pop. ...

(Encyclopedia) Salvador souN [key], city (1991 pop. 2,075,273), capital of Bahia state, E Brazil, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the commercial center of a fertile crescent (the Recôncavo) and a shipping point...

(Encyclopedia) Guanahani: see San Salvador, island. ...

(Encyclopedia) São Salvador, Brazil: see Salvador, city. ...