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An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy kingdom kingdoms crowns monarchies crown constitutional monarchy ConstitutionalMonarchy An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rsQ8Nwm2iEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">ConstitutionalMonarchy</a> is a country ruled by a monarch along with the assistance of a written constitution. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rDl2OOI16QdiZzJ7gPbOw4A" class="cyc_term">SymbolicMonarchy</a> is a country in which the monarch is almost entirely or entirely a <i>de facto</i> nominal authority. SymbolicMonarchy symbolic monarchy The nation of Swaziland as it has existed throughout time; includes both its physical and its political aspects Swaziland Swaziland Luxembourg The nation of Luxembourg as it has existed throughout time; includes both its physical and its political aspects. Luxembourg The Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah is one of the smaller of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedArabEmirates</a>. Ras al-Khaimah's coastal part, where the coastal town and Emir's palace is located, is northeast of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvyfP2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UmmAlGawain_Emirate</a>, and southwest of the nearby UAE border with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oman</a> at the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StraitOfHormuz</a>. RasAlKhaimah-Emirate Ras al Khaymah Bahrain Bahrain Bahrain is a small <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MiddleEast_Region</a>, which occupies an island in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjsY5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersianGulf</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv1p7fZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Bahrain_TheIsland</a>). Bahrain is northeast of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaudiArabia</a> and northwest of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViQGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Qatar</a>. Bahrain is off the east coast of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaudiArabia</a>. Malaysia, a medium-sized <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> situated partly on a peninsula (south of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViUD5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thailand</a>), and partly on an island (north of Indonesia). As with all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a>, this is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVibmpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Malaysia</a> as a country qua political and historical entity (and also qua geographical entity in &quot;dualist&quot; microtheories). Malaysia Malaysia Bhutan Bhutan: a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rMH__9phpQdiGoqh69-34gg" class="cyc_term">SouthAsianCountry</a>, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a>, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a>, and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTpvCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LandlockedGeopoliticalEntity</a>. Bhutan Denmark The nation of Denmark as it has existed throughout time; includes both its physical and its political aspects. Denmark Oman <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oman</a> (the Sultante of Oman) is a small <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjt7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArabianPeninsula</a>. The bulk of it is east of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaudiArabia</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedArabEmirates</a>, on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViH35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndianOcean</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjr45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GulfOfOman</a>. A small part of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oman</a> is north of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedArabEmirates</a> (north of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv3nql5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RasAlKhaimah_Emirate</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwFI1kZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Fujairah_Emirate</a>) directly on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StraitOfHormuz</a>. Oman Tonga Tonga island-group nation of the South Pacific Morocco A country in northern Africa. Morocco Saudi Arabia SaudiArabia Saudi Arabia is a medium-sized <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjt7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArabianPeninsula</a>; it is south of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Jordan_TheNation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Iraq</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGEJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Kuwait</a>, north of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPbFVJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Yemen</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oman</a>, and southwest of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedArabEmirates</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViQGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Qatar</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViP2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Bahrain</a>. Lesotho: an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQXRcnuoYQdeERLuWRKMEFw" class="cyc_term">AfricanCountry</a>, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a>, and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTpvCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LandlockedGeopoliticalEntity</a>. Lesotho Lesotho The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvhJl7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrincipalityOfSealand</a> is a tiny country founded on an artificial island in the North Sea in 1968 by Paddy Roy Bates, who became <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvz3WOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrinceRoyOfSealand</a>. It is on a former World War II anti-aircraft platform off the coast of Harwich, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViWaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">England</a>. Almost all of its thousands of citizens are non-resident. Although British courts recognize that Sealand is not British territory, and the Sealand government has actual control and sovereignty on the island, no major country recognizes the Principality diplomatically. Sealand issues coins, stamps and passports. PrincipalityOfSealand Principality of Sealand Kingdom of Ashanti The most important African kingdom located in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ghana</a>, West Africa. Ashanti-KingdomOf Axim-KingdomOf Kingdom of Axim A small African kingdom located on the coast of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViG75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ghana</a>, west of the city of Takoradi on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkB0pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AtlanticOcean</a>. It has a prominent old Portuguese seacoast fort. The Kingdom of Axim has a black population of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkHR5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfAfricans</a>, but its kings have been white Americans (the kings of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcm6UJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Biffeche_KingdomOf</a>) since the early 1970's. the Kingdom of Biffeche A very small African kingdom located on the north border of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViJi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Senegal</a>, adjoining <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViIwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mauritania</a>, northeast of the city of Saint-Louis in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv718WpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SenegalRiver</a> delta. The Kingdom of Biffeche has a black population from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwRJe25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfSererNdut</a>, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjGjpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfFula</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfWolof</a>, but its kings have been white Americans since the early 1960's. The total population in the 1990's is between 1500 and 10000. Biffeche-KingdomOf Norway The country of Norway - both physical and political. Norway Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) is a small <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> in the southwest of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAsia</a>; Jordan is east of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViP55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Israel</a>, south of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj7c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Syria</a>, west of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Iraq</a> and north of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaudiArabia</a>. Jordan-TheNation Jordan An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment form of government A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvprlOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FacetingCollectionType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a> is a collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> with the same (type of) system of government. Examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rc17uPG2kEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">ConstitutionalRepublic</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9LVeTm2uEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">MilitaryDictatorship</a>. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy other vocabulary that may be useful in the hormuz area hormuz area topic OtherVocabularyThatMayBeUsefulInTheHormuzArea-HormuzArea-Topic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViIeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Country</a> is a nation-state having its own territory, population, and government, whether or not it is fully independent. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViIm5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Scotland</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViIeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Country</a>, even though it is a part of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViRhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedKingdomOfGreatBritainAndNorthernIreland</a>. See also the important specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a>. country Country An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a> is a country with a system of government in which an hereditary ruler figures prominently. Subsumes both absolute monarchy, where executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government are vested in the monarch, and constitutional monarchies, in which at least some aspects of the government derive from a written constitution and not from the monarch's whim. Monarchy monarchy