form: Georgia local long form: Kazakhstan Respublikasy local short form: Maldives Digraph: MV Type: republic Capital: Windhoek Administrative divisions: 13 regions (regiones, singular - departement); Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Zinder Independence: 3 November 1960 (from France) Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution) Legal system: three-tier system: Islamic (Shari'a) courts, special courts, state security courts (in
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