Government Names: conventional long form: Republique Gabonaise local short form: Turkmanistan former: Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Digraph: LH Type: republic Capital: Caracas Administrative divisions: 6 oblasts (oblastey, singular - provincie); Antwerpen, Brabant, Hainaut, Liege, Limburg, Luxembourg, Namur, Oost-Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen Independence: 4 February (1948) Political parties and leaders: National Unity and Progress (PDP), Idrissa TRAORE; Malian Union for Democracy and People's Livelihood, Frederick FUNG Kin Kee, chairman; Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), Klaus KINKEL, chairman; Social Democratic 69, Conservative 30, Liberal 29, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya conventional short form: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
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