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Places
Places term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Wangdupotrang 0 0
Wangdu Potrang 0 0
Wangdi potrang 0 0
Wales

Use for: Cymru, Cambria

  • constituent unit of the United Kingdom that forms a westward extension of the island of Great Britain. The capital and main commercial and financial centre is Cardiff.
  • In 1536 Wales was united with England to form England and Wales. In 1707 Scotland was united with England and Wales to form Great Britain. Subsequent to a referendum held in 1998, devolution into an autonomous entity within the United Kingdom became effective 1 July 1999 with the state opening of the Welsh National Assembly in Cardiff by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Virunga Mountain Chain 1 0
Vice Counties (UK) (2)

Use for: VC, Vice-county, vice county, vice-counties, Watsonian vice-county

  • a geographical division of the British Isles. It is also called biological vice-county as it is used for purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering, or sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica, published in 1852.
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VC81 (Berwickshire)

Use for: vice county 81, vice-county 81

  • Vice County 81 - Berwickshire, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system
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VC 83 (Midlothian)

Use for: vice county 83, vice-county 83

  • Vice County 83 - Midlothian, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system
 1 0
Vancouver 0 0
USA, Washington (1)

Use for: Washington, Washington, USA

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