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The World Factbook. 2008.

Reunion

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Map of Reunion
Reunion
 
overseas department of France (1995 est. pop. 666,000), c.970 sq mi (2,510 sq km), one of the Mascarene Islands, in the Indian Ocean c.430 mi (690 km) E of Madagascar. Saint-Denis (the capital) and Le Port (the leading port) are the chief cities.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  r-yn´yn, r-ü-nyô´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 1993–2020 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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