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Bouvet Island Government 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Bouvet Island Government 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Country name:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Bouvet Island
etymology: named after the French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles BOUVET who discovered the island in 1739
note: pronounced boo-vay i-land

Dependency status:
territory of Norway; administered by the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice and Oslo Police

Legal system:
the laws of Norway apply where applicable

Flag description:
the flag of Norway is used


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Bouvet Island on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bouvet Island Government 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bouvet Island Government 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.






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