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REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator
Synonyms:
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Kiribati"):
Gilbert Islands (a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979)
Bairiki; Tarawa (national capital of Kiribati)
Holonyms ("Republic of Kiribati" is a part of...):
Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)
