Gibraltar

Information about Gibraltar

Gibraltar
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Flag of Gibraltar
FlagCoat of arms
Motto
Nulli Expugnabilis Hosti  (Latin)
"Conquered By No Enemy"1
Anthem
"Gibraltar Anthem"
"God Save the Queen"
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Location of Gibraltar
Capital
(and largest city)
Gibraltar
368′N, 521′W]
Official languagesEnglish
GovernmentBritish Overseas Territory
 - Head of stateQueen Elizabeth II
 - GovernorRobert Fulton
 - Chief MinisterPeter Caruana
EventDate 
 - Captured4th August 1704 
 - Ceded1713 (Treaty of Utrecht
 - National Day10th September 
 - Constitution Day29th January 
 - Water (%)0%
Population
 - Jul 2007 estimate27,967 (207th)
GDP (PPP)2000 estimate
 - Total$769 million (197th)
 - Per capita$27,900 (n/a)
HDI (n/a)n/a (n/a) (n/a)
CurrencyGibraltar pound2 (GIP)
Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST)CEST (UTC+2)
Internet TLD.gi
Calling code+3503
1[2]National Symbols of Gibraltar]
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A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization.
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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For the Radiohead song, see "The National Anthem".
A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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"God Save the Queen", or "God Save the King", is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms; it currently serves as the national anthem of the United Kingdom, one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, and the royal anthem of Canada and of Australia.
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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The Demographics of Gibraltar reflects Gibraltarians' racial and cultural fusion of the many European immigrants who came to the Rock over three hundred years. They are the descendants of economic migrants that came to Gibraltar after the majority of the Spanish population left in
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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British Overseas Territories are fourteen[1] territories which the United Kingdom considers to be under its sovereignty, but not as part of the United Kingdom itself.
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Head of state or Chief of state is the generic term for the individual or collective office that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchic or republican nation-state, federation,
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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary;<ref name="sur" /> born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies.
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Gibraltar

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Gibraltar


  • Governor
  • Sir Robert Fulton

  • Chief Minister
  • Peter Caruana

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Sir Robert Fulton, KBE, RM (born 1948) is a British Royal Marines career military officer, and the Governor of Gibraltar since September 2006.

Born in 1948, he was educated at Eton College and the University of East Anglia. Fulton joined the Royal Marines in 1972.
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Gibraltar

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Gibraltar


  • Governor
  • Sir Robert Fulton

  • Chief Minister
  • Peter Caruana

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Peter Richard Caruana QC (born 15 October 1956) is a Gibraltarian politician, and has been Chief Minister of Gibraltar since 1996, when his party, the Gibraltar Social Democrats, first came to power. His party was re-elected to office in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
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Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather than a single document, comprised a series of individual peace treaties signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713.
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September 10 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

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January 29 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45 % (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45.
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gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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The purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. It is the method of using the long-run equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize the currencies' purchasing power.
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There are three lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP) (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year). The GDP dollar estimates given on this page are derived from Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) calculations.
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