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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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PW is an abbreviation for Palau
PW is an abbreviation for Prisoner of War
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The USS Palau was an American Commencement Bay Class light fleet aircraft carrier of 12000 tons displacement launched in 1945. The USS Palau had a top speed of 20 knots and carried a complement of 1000 and 34 aircraft. She was armed with two 5 inch guns; twenty-six 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and thirty 20 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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The Caroline islands (also formerly known as the New Philippines) are an archipelago in the north west Pacific Ocean between latitude 3 degrees and 12 degrees north and longitude 132 degrees and 163 degrees 6 minutes east, and between the Philippines and the Marshall Isles. They were first discovered by the Spaniards in 1543, if not by the Portuguese in 1525. Many of the islands are mere coral reefs little elevated above the ocean. They form many groups, the most important being the Pelews, and those to which the largest islands of all, Yap and Ponape, respectively belong. The islands were long in the possession of Spain, but in 1899, after the conclusion of the war between that power and the United States, they were sold to Germany. In 1914 they were seized by Japan, who held them after 1919 as a League of Nations mandate. During the Second World War the islands, which had been heavily fortified by Japan, were seized by the United States and in 1947 became part of a UN strategic trust territory under US jurisdiction. After 1986 the trust territory included only the Republic of Palau, all other segments, including the Federated States of Micronesia, having adopted commonwealth status or a form of nationhood in close association with the United States.
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The Federated States of Micronesia is a country comprised of a number of islands in the Pacific Ocean, chiefly Palau, the Caroline Islands, the Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands, lying north-east of Australia.
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The Republic of Pelau (Belau) is an island group country in the Pacific Ocean. The islands were governed by Spain from 1600 until 1899 when they were sold to germany. In 1947, following the Second World War, Pelau became part of the Trust territory of the Pacific Islands before gaining self government in 1980 and full independence (under American control) in 1994.
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Palau is a dialect of the language Brao, spoken in parts of Vietnam.
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Palauan is a language spoken in Palau.
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Sonsorol is a Micronesian language spoken in Palau.
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Tobian is a Micronesian language spoken in Palau.
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