Tag: government
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The Flat Friends Discover Singapore, A City-State
#flathal #flatstanleyproject #Singapore Singapore is an amazing place. Home to six million people it is a city-state, which is a fancy way of saying the entire country is really one big city. Athens and Rome were city-states, hundreds of years ago. There are basically three city-states in the world, each famous for different reasons. Monaco—famous…
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Different Countries Have Different Ways Of Governing… Let’s Learn About Where We’ve Been!
#flathal #flatstanleyproject #government Another sea day, another chance to dig up answers to what’s on our minds. This time the Flat Friends decided to try and learn a little about the governments of the countries we have been visiting. (Flat Hal visited Ecuador and Peru last year, so he included them while we were looking…
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Panama City, Panama— the Nation’s Capital
#flathal #flatstanley #panama #government Both Panama and the United States are presidential representative democratic republics. That doesn’t mean they have the exact same types of governments, but we can take our knowledge of the United States government to help us understand the government of Panama. Both have a President. Both have a legislative branch elected…