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In the United States a longer duty cycle is used, 50% for battery-powered buoys (20 seconds on, 20 seconds off) and 75% for on-shore beacons. Ramarks are wide-band beacons which transmit continuously on the radar bands without having to be triggered by an incoming radar signal. The transmission forms a line of Morse characters on the display ...
Map of territories on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. The list draws its origins from the period of colonialism and the Charter's concept of non-self-governing territories. As an increasing number of formerly colonized countries became UN members, the General Assembly increasingly asserted its authority to place ...
In a parliamentary republic, the head of government is selected or nominated by the legislature and is also accountable to it.The head of state is usually called a president and (in full parliamentary republics) is separate from the head of government, serving a largely apolitical, ceremonial role.
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]
The Pew Research Center observes that 50% of births in the year 2100 will be in Africa. [9] Other organizations project lower levels of population growth in Africa, based particularly on improvement in women's education and successful implementation of family planning.
The US, China and Russia have cumulatively contributed the greatest amounts of CO 2 since 1850. [ 3] This is a list of sovereign states and territories by per capita carbon dioxide emissions[ n 1] due to certain forms of human activity, based on the EDGAR database created by European Commission. The following table lists the 1970, 1990, 2005 ...
The global literacy rate for all males is 90.0%, and the rate for all females is 82.7%. The rate varies throughout the world, with developed nations having a rate of 99.2% (2013), South and West Asia having 70.2% (2015), and sub-Saharan Africa at 64.0% (2015). [1] Over 75% of the world's 781 million illiterate adults are found in South Asia ...
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [ 16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.