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Last update: January 8th 2015

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Please note that the text below is in ‘Lipsum‘, a fake language / text:

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Bahrain (Arabic for ‘Two Seas’) is an archipelago of about thirty islands in the Persian Gulf, situated between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Manama, the capital, is located on the largest island (also called Bahrain). Muharraq, the second-largest island, is connected to Manama by a four-mile causeway. (source: Fanack.com)

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Bahrain (image via Fanack.com)