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Niue

LC control no.n 83232786
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingNiue
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Geographic subdivision usageNiue
Variant(s)Nioué
Niuai
Niue Fekai
Niue Island
Republic of Niue
Savage Island
Ниуэ
紐埃
Other standard no.Q34020
130229650
4036232
7004687
C76
1227610
7fc2feb2-0d33-31ef-b496-b812a4dd2965
concept855
Associated placeOceania
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Found inLawrence, P. Niue Island provisional bathymetry, 1966: map recto (Niue Island)
LC data base, 11/29/83 (hdg.: Niue)
Statesman's yrbk, 1983-84 (Niue Island)
Bentley, Jim. Evaluation report on the FM broadcasting system of the Broadcasting Corporation of Niue (BCN), 1991: t.p. (Niue) leaf 2 ("Niue Fekai, commonly known as Niue, is a South Pacific island country which is self governing in free association with New Zealand, a status achieved by Constitutional Act in October 1974. From 1900 Niue had British Protectorate status. In 1902 it was annexed to New Zealand. Situated ... 480 kilometers east of Tonga and 900 kilometres west of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands")
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (pcl; 19°01ʹ60ʺS 169°52ʹ00ʺW)
Wikipedia, May 7, 2018 (Niue (Niuean: Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) northeast of New Zealand, east of Tonga, south of Samoa, and west of the Cook Islands; a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand; not a member of the United Nations, but UN organisations have accepted its status as a freely-associated state as equivalent to independence for the purposes of international law) Russian version (Ниуэ = Niuė) Chinese version (紐埃 = Niuai)
IdRef website, May 7, 2018 (Niue; variants: Nioué; Savage (île))
   <https://www.idref.fr/028122283>
Getty thesaurus of geographic names online, May 7, 2018 (Niue; variants: Nioué; Republic of Niue (incorrectly listed as "republic" by ISO, corrected 2011); NIU; NU; ISO570; ME00; Savage Island; internally self-governing, but New Zealand controls defense and foreign affairs; charted in 1774 by Cook, who named it Savage Island because he received an unfriendly reception from native Polynesians; was part of Cook Islands until 1922)
   <http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004687>
The world factbook, via WWW, October 9, 2021 (Niue; location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga; 19°02ʹ S, 169°52ʹ W; government type: parliamentary democracy; dependency status: self-governing in free association with New Zealand since 1974; Niue is fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealand retains responsibility for external affairs and defense; independence: 19 October 1974 (Niue became a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand); independent member of international organizations)
   <https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/niue/>
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