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List All Cities Cocos (Keeling) Islands Listing cities Cocos (Keeling) Islands database :
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Description Cocos (Keeling) Islands by rbd.me
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There are 27 coral islands in the group. Captain William KEELING discovered the islands in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the 19th century. From the 1820s to 1978, members of the CLUNIE-ROSS family controlled the islands and the copra produced from local coconuts. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the Cocos Islands were transferred to the Australian Government in 1955. The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.
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Location
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Southeastern Asia, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Indonesia, about halfway from Australia to Sri Lanka
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Area - comparative
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about 24 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
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Natural resources Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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flat, low-lying coral atolls
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Population Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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596 (July 2010 est.)
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Religions Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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Sunni Muslim 80%, other 20% (2002 est.)
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Languages
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Malay (Cocos dialect), English
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Education Cocos (Keeling) Islands expenditures
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NA
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Government Cocos (Keeling) Islands type
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non-self governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
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Independence
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none (territory of Australia)
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands Economy - overview
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none (territory of Australia)
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Investment Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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$NA
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Industries Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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1 (2009)
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Airports Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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