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Fota Island. / 51.89917°N 8.29833°W / 51.89917; -8.29833. Fota (statutory spelling Foaty; Irish: Fóite) [1] [2] is an island in Cork Harbour, County Cork, Ireland, just north of the larger island of Great Island. It is the home of Fota Wildlife Park —the only such zoo or animal park (besides Dublin Zoo) in the country—, the ...
Fogo Island ( Fogo, Portuguese for "Fire") is the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Town of Fogo Island encompasses Fogo, Joe Batt's Arm-Barr'd Islands-Shoal Bay, Seldom-Little Seldom and Tilting, with the unincorporated areas of Fogo Island. [2] It lies off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, northwest ...
505 (2021) [4] Fårö ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfôːrøː]) or Fåre in Gutnish [5] [6] is a Baltic Sea island just north of the island of Gotland, itself off mainland Sweden 's southeastern coast. It is the second-largest island in the county and it is a popular summer resort. It has its own language, Faroymal, a dialect of Gutnish .
Demographic features of the population of the Faroe Islands include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of North Germanic descent. Ethnic Faroese are, in genetic terms, among ...
Klaksvík, on the island of Borðoy, is the Faroe Islands' second-largest town. In 2011, 13% of the Faroe Islands' national income consists of economic aid from Denmark, [117] corresponding to roughly 5% of GDP. [118] Since 2000, the government has fostered new information technology and business projects to attract new investment.
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
The 12 islands and islets comprising Kinmen mainland, Lieyu (small Kinmen), Da Dan, Er Dan, Dong Ding, Beiding, Cao islet, Hou islet, Jiangong islet, Fuxing islet, Menghu islet, Shi islet occupy an area of 150 square meters in total. ^ a b c 金門縣行政區域圖 [Kinmen County] (Map) (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English).
The archipelago of Madeira is politically organized as an autonomous region and includes two principal islands and two minor island groups: Madeira , 32°39′4″N 16°54′35″W / 32.65111°N 16.90972°W / 32.65111; -16.90972 ( Madeira Island