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| style="font-size: 120%; background: #fcfcfc; text-align: center;" colspan=2 |'''Socialist Republic of Yazminia''' <br> '''''Socialisma Respubliko de Yazminia'''''<br>
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| colspan=2 | <center>[[Image:Flag of Yazminia.png|110px|border|Flag of Yazminia]] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Image:EscudoYZ2.png|80px|Coat of arms of Yazminia]]</center>
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| colspan=2 | <center>'''[[Wikipedia:Motto|Motto]]''': ''Unu por ĉiuj''<br><small>''One for all''</small></center>
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| colspan=2 | <center>'''[[Wikipedia:Anthem|National anthem]]''': ''[[Wikipedia:The_Internationale|Esti glora, nia libera patrujo!]]''<br><small>''Be glorious, our free motherland!''</small></center>
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| align="center" colspan=2 style="padding: 0em 0em 0.5em 0em; text-align: center; background: #fcfcfc;" | [[Image:LocYZ.png|280px|Location of Yazminia]]
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| width=130px | '''[[Wikipedia:Capital|Capital]]<br><small>(and largest city)</small>''' || [[Wikipedia:capital city|Liechgrado]]<br>&nbsp;
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| '''Official language'''
| [[Wikipedia:Esperanto|Yazminian]]<br>
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| '''Ethnic groups'''<br><br>&nbsp;
| 87% [[Wikipedia:Caucasian|Yazminians]]<br> 13% [[Wikipedia:Alien_(law)|Foreigners]]<br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Government|Government]]'''<br><br>&nbsp;— [[Wikipedia:President|President]]<br>&nbsp;— [[Wikipedia:Prime Minister|Prime Minister]]
| [[Wikipedia:Socialist state|Socialist state]] and [[Wikipedia:Multi-party_system|multi-party system]]<br>[[Wikipedia:Karl Marx|Karlo Marso]]<br>[[Wikipedia:Rosa Luxemburg|Leviĝis Luksemburgio]]<br>
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| '''Legislature'''<br>&nbsp;
| [[Wikipedia:Congress|Popola Domo]]<br>
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| '''Formation'''<br>&nbsp;— The Union<br><br>
| <br>[[Wikipedia:1368|1368]]<br><br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Area|Area]]''' <br>&nbsp;— Total <br>&nbsp;— Inland waters<br><br>
| <br>246,184 km² (95,052 sq mi)<br>4%<br><br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Population|Population]]'''<br>&nbsp;— [[Wikipedia:2012|2012]] estimate<br>
| <br>24,207,276<br><small>101.0 persons / km²</small><br><small>261.6 persons / sq mi</small><br><br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Wikipedia:Purchasing power parity|PPP]], 2012)<br/>&nbsp;— Total ([[Wikipedia:Universal Standard Dollar|$]]) <br/>&nbsp;— GDP/capita ([[Wikipedia:Universal Standard Dollar|$]])
| <br>{{increase}} 1.257 trillion<br>30,412
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Wikipedia:Nominal GDP|Nominal]], 2012) <br/>&nbsp;— Total ([[Wikipedia:Universal Standard Dollar|$]]) <br/>&nbsp;— GDP/capita ([[Wikipedia:Universal Standard Dollar|$]])
| <br>{{increase}} 1.198 trillion <br>28,976<br><br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Human Development Index|HDI]] rating''' (2012)
| {{increase}} 0.899 (<span style="color:#090;">very&nbsp;high</span>)<br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Gini coefficient|Gini coefficient]]''' (2012)
| {{steady}} 10.1<br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Currency|Currency]]'''
| [[Wikipedia:Ruble|Yazminian ruble]] ([[Wikipedia:Currency_sign|¥]]) <font face="Courier New">([[Wikipedia:ISO 4217|YZR]])</font></small><br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Time_Zone|Time zone]]'''
| [[Wikipedia:Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] ([[Wikipedia:UTC|UTC]]-04:00)<br>
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|'''[[Wikipedia:24-hour clock|Time format]]'''
| 24-hour clock (00:00—23:59)<br>
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|'''[[Wikipedia:Calendar date|Date format]]'''
| dd-mm-yyyy<br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Right-_and_left-hand_traffic|Drives on the]]'''
| right<br>
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| '''Internet [[Wikipedia:Top-level domain|TLD]]'''
| [[Wikipedia:Top-level domain|.yz]]<br>
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| '''[[Wikipedia:Telephone_numbers_in_Europe|Calling code]]''' 
| <font face="Courier New"> [[Wikipedia:Telephone_numbers_in_Europe|+43]]<br>
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Yazminia, officially the The '''Socialist Republic of Yazminia''' (Yazminian: ''Socialisma Respubliko de Yazminia'') is a state located in the north of [[Wikipedia:continent|Southern Internalia]]. Its territory extends by the [[Wikipedia:peninsula|Yazminian peninsula]] and adjacent lands along the [[Wikipedia:bay|Kamaradas bay coast]] and the east of the coast of the [[Wikipedia:gulf|gulf of Mirela]], as well as hundreds of islands along [[wiki:sea|Algasorian Sea]] and two cities in [[wiki:island|Lucasina Island]] and [[wiki:peninsula|Keohretcha Peninsula]] making a total of 246,184 km². Yazminia borders to the southwest with [[List_of_sovereign_states_in_Internatia|Dimkarus]], to the south with [[List_of_sovereign_states_in_Internatia|Nicolas' Neighbour]] and the [[List_of_sovereign_states_in_Internatia|Harlquenia]] and to the east with [[Grolskira]]. <br>

Since the [[Wikipedia:1992|1992 revolution]], Yazminia is organized as a [[Wikipedia:multi-party|multi-party system]] while being a [[Wikipedia:socialist state|socialist state]]. It is a [[Wikipedia:developed country|developed country]], is one of the countries with less [[Wikipedia:inequality|inequality]] according to the [[Wikipedia:OEDC|OECD]] and it has the "very high [[Wikipedia:living standards|living standards]]" label given by [[Wikipedia:UNDP|UNDP]].

== Etymology ==

''Land of Yazmin'' or ''Land of the jasmines'', named after [[Wiki:Jasmine|Yazmin]], heir of [[Wikipedia:kingdom|Kastelando Crown]], and the amount of [[Wikipedia:Jasmine|jasmines]] that can be found in its territory. ([[#Yazminia|See below]])

== History ==

===Pre-Yazminia===

There are archaeological evidences that the Yazminian peninsula is inhabited by [[Wikipedia:hominids|hominids]] at least 1 million years ago. However, the peninsula enters the writing era inhabited by the [[Wikipedia:Celts|Celts]] and the Diocests, the historical settlers of the peninsula. After the weakening of those peoples due to the constant struggles between, the [[Wikipedia:Roman Empire|Roman Empire]] easly conquered them. During the early [[Wikipedia:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]] the peninsula came the under the [[Wikipedia:Muslim|Kalifejon Kingdom]] rule, which would last for almost a millennium.

During the [[Wikipedia:10th century|10th century]], a [[Wikipedia:war of succession|war between different successors]] for the throne of the Kalifejon Kingdom allowed the small Christian kingdoms who resisted in the southern mountainous region to gain territories. With more equal forces, Muslims and Christians fought for centuries and the Christians gained slowly the control of the peninsula in a process called [[Wikipedia:Reconquest|O Rekonkero]] (''The Reconquest''). During the same period, while they were gaining territories, the different kingdoms were being inherited to the the same kings so they merged into bigger crowns. At the end of the [[Wikipedia:Reconquest|O Rekonkero]], only two crowns left in the peninsula, [[Wikipedia:kingdom|Kastelando]] in the west and [[Wikipedia:kingdom|Grandavalia]] in the east, until they united in 1368.

===Yazminia===

[[Wiki:Jasmine|Yazmin]], heiress to the [[Wikipedia:crown|Kastelando Crown]] and [[Wiki:Ferdinand|Ferdinando]] heir to the [[Wikipedia:crown|Grandavalia Crown]] met in an audit in [[Wikipedia:city|O Mantelo]] and fell in love, but this love was impossible because [[Wiki:Jasmine|Yazmin]] was promised by her parents to a [[Wikipedia:Marriage of state|marriage of convenience]] with [[Wiki:Henry|Henry]] king of the [[Wikipedia:people|Malsagans]], a kingdom located in the northeast of the bay. When [[Wiki:Ferdinand|Ferdinando]] acceded to the throne, declared a surprise war on [[Wikipedia:country|Malsagia]], with [[Wikipedia:country|Malsagia]] finally surrendering in [[Wikipedia:1367|1367]]. [[Wiki:Ferdinand|Ferdinando]] marry [[Wiki:Jasmine|Yazmin]] one year later and as a celebration, [[Wiki:Ferdinand|Ferdinando]] ordered to plant millions of jasmine plants around the territory and renamed the resulting crown as Yazminia. Nowadays, they are still popularly known by Yazminians as Os Amantos (''the lovers'') and to honor them every October 9 is celebrated the Amantos Rago (''the lovers day''), where it is traditional for men giving jasmines to his partner.

The Yazminian crown union was strengthened during the following centuries, but after a diplomatic crisis in [[Wikipedia:1747|1747]] the surrounding countries allied to conquer the peninsula. Yazminians organized [[Wikipedia:guerrilla warfare|gerilos]] against the invaders and after years of continuous attacks by Yazminian guerrillas and sabotages by the civil population, foreigners were expelled and Yazminia regained its independence. Yazminians took advantage of guerrillas and the weakening of the previously invading powers and conquered the continuous lands of the peninsula along the southeast of the [[Wikipedia:bay|Algasorian bay coast]], defining the map of the current Yazminia. At that time the first Yazminian constitution was drafted, defining Yazminia as a [[Wikipedia:Unitary_state|unitary country]] for the first time.

In [[Wikipedia:1930|1930]], early the first ever free elections were held. The Left-Republican coalition won over the Conservatives and Royalists, people after the results hit the streets and proclaimed the [[Wikipedia:republic|Second Republic]]. The left-republican government drafted a new constitution recognizing [[Wikipedia:freedom of speech|freedom of speech]] and [[Wikipedia:freedom of association|freedom of association]], extending [[Wikipedia:suffrage|suffrage]] to women, separating the State of the Churches and allowing divorce and stripping the Yazminian nobility of any special legal status, among many other things. In [[Wikipedia:1940|1940]] the [[Wikipedia:fascism|nationalists]] supported by the military and the nobility revolted against the democratic government bringing Yazminia to a [[Wikipedia:civil war|civil war]]. Finally the nationalists with the help of [[Wikipedia:Axis powers|foreign Fascist powers]] won the war after three years. With Yazminia devastated, the winners easily instituted a represive [[Wikipedia:military dictatorship|military dictatorship]] who ruled the country for more than three decades. The new generations who did not experience the repression of the early years of the dictatorship, began to organize demanding democracy, finally throwing the dictatorship in [[Wikipedia:1975|1975]] the peaceful [[Wikipedia:revolution|''Floro Revolucio'']] (''Flowers Revolution''). Yazminia was organized as a [[Wikipedia:Western_democracy|liberal democracy]] until [[Wikipedia:1992|1992]], in which a severe economic crisis led the [[Wikipedia:Communist Party|Communist Party]] to power. Although the multi-party system is still valid [[Wikipedia:de iure|''de iure'']], parties that do not support socialism are banned and persecuted.

==Geography==

Yazminia has a total land area of 246,184 km² dividided between the [[Wikipedia:peninsula|Yazminian peninsula]] and adjacent lands along the east of the [[Wikipedia:bay|gulf of Mirela coast]] and the [[Wikipedia:bay|Kamaradas bay coast]] making a total area of 239,676 km², some small islands adjacent to the coast and five insular regions of 6,477 km² and two autonomous cities in [[wiki:island||Lucasina Island]] and [[wiki:peninsula|Keohretcha Peninsula]] with 19 km² and 12 km² respectively.

Unlike the coast, the inner strip is a cold mountainous region. Because of this geography, Yazminian rivers are short but plentiful. The longest of them, the [[Wikipedia:river|Ibriya]] just cover 92 km to its mouth in [[Wikipedia:city|Stelas]], but has an average discharge of 2,830 m<sup>3</sup>/s. The [[Wikipedia:source_(river_or_stream|source)]] of the Ibriya, the Inferon mountain, is the highest Yazminian mountain, having a peak of 3,718 m above the sea level.

===Climate===

Almost all Yazminia has a [[Wikipedia:Mediterranean climate|Mediterranean climate]], except the northern part having a [[Wikipedia:Oceanic climate|Oceanic climate]]. While the wind from the east, north or west are wet due to the sea influence, the proximity of the mountain system with the sea causes a extremely dry southern wind, especially in the interior of the Yazminian peninsula.

===Administrative divisions===
Yazminia is integrated by into 31 [[Wikipedia:region|regionos]] (''regions'') which are divided into 95 [[Wikipedia:province|provincos]] (''provinces''), and two [[Wikipedia:autonomous_city|autonomous cities]]. Although [[Wikipedia:de iure|''de iure'']] Yazminia is a [[Wikipedia:Unitary_state|unitary country]], its regions have much autonomy so it could be considered a [[Wikipedia:federation|federation]] [[Wikipedia:de facto|''de facto'']].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Region !! Population !! Area !! Density
|-
| Arbaria || 615,063 || 6,430 || 95.7
|-
| Belastero || 1,505,605 || 9,243 || 162.9
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| Islos Bluos || 123,059 || 952 || 129.3
|-
| Castelos || 1,138,717 || 28,466 || 40.0
|-
| Cataria || 2,635,163 || 2,544 || 1,035.8
|-
| Celtos || 1,596,330 || 12,312 || 127.5
|-
| Islos dos Crusos || 952,209 || 3,057 || 311.5
|-
| Dezertia || 908,735 || 3,083 || 294.8
|-
| A Fortuna || 1,362,394 || 11,190 || 121.8
|-
| Grandaval || 1,849,651 || 13,473 || 137.3
|-
| Hebrea || 653,948 || 5,226 || 125.3
|-
| O Fino || 737,098 || 21,679 || 34.0
|-
| Islos dos Lancios || 513,915 || 2,008 || 255.9
|-
| Lando das Feirias || 300,406 || 1,611 || 186.5
|-
| Islos das Lignas || 113,883  || 327 || 348.3
|-
| Lusio || 1,416,067 || 1,459 || 970.6
|-
| A Macula || 1,065,586 || 26,335 || 40.5
|-
| Malpuriga || 502,541 || 3,983 || 126.2
|-
| Matrico || 2,848,151 || 3,094 || 920.5
|-
| Nevencebla || 605,739 || 6,155 || 98.4
|-
| Orientaria || 2,222,478 || 8,937 || 248.7
|-
| Paradizo || 2,049,328 || 24,430 || 83.9
|-
| Islos da Pasko || 39,394 || 133 ||296.2
|-
| A Punta || 191,802 || 552 || 347.5
|-
| Rigardi || 185,528 || 1,727 || 107.4
|-
| Riveretos || 174,366 || 1,387 || 125.7
|-
| Roselia i as Rosas || 620,153 || 3,210 || 193.2
|-
| Saracenia || 1,258,604 || 17,443 || 73.4
|-
| Tacusia || 393,510 || 6,950 || 56.6
|- 
| Tera de Leonos || 748,564 || 15,116 || 49.5
|-
| A Vasciana ||	1,073,973 || 3,641 || 295.0
|- 
| ''Blanstonia and Sepmonto'' || ''102,648'' || ''31'' || ''3311.2''
|}

==Demographics==

As of the [[Wikipedia:Census|2012 census]], Yazminian had 24,207,276 inhabitants, having about 101 persons per square kilometre, which means the country has a normal [[Wikipedia:population density|population density]]. The most population is concentrated along the coast. 

===Ethnic breakdown=== 
Because of its different religions and regional variations, Yazminia it's a [[Wikipedia:rainbow_nation|heterogenic country]]. Depending on the context, Yazminian people may include all persons with Yazminian nationality, all persons that have ancestral Yazminian origin and traditions or it also may be divided into several classifications because religion, langauges or dialects, which may vary depending on the political movement.

Constitution says Yazminia is a "nation of peoples", and although it doesn't enter into the ethnical background, recognizes 30 Yazminian popolos (''peoples'') based on a dialectal division, in addition to the Rapas, a people of Polynesian origin in the special region of the Pasko Islands. Also, there are peoples with a non-Yazminian origin dispersed throughout the country, such as the Roma people, the Pagans that arrived from the south escaping religious persecution or the Buddhists and Hindus that arrived as merchants in the 18th and 19th centuries, although it's difficult to define them because although they kept religion and some traditions, they normally adapted to each region, so are seen by Yazminian state as sub-groups inside the popolos, at the same level than other religious minorities in each region.

The massive growth of immigrants experienced over the last decade added to this mixture some different foreign cultures.

===Migration===

As of 2013, there are around 2.3 million foreign people legally residing in Yazminia, making the 9,5% of the total population. After 00's rapid economic growth, immigration to Yazminia increased largely, and made the rate of the foreign population living in Yazminia 10 times bigger than only 10 years back. The figures are even bigger if we have into account illegal immigration and foreign-born people that have acquired Yazminian citizenship.

Origin of immigration to Yazminia is varied, but is dominated by people from cultural similar areas. Almost one in four (24,6%) foreigners in Yazminia comes from another Internatian country, 20,2% from Central and South America, 18,1% from Eastern Europe, 14,7% from Western Europe, 10,8% from the North of Africa, 4,1% from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2,7% from East Asia, 2,5% from Arabia, 1,5% from the Indian Sub-Continent, 0,7% from North America and 0,1% from Oceania.

By religion, 58,5% declared themselves as Christians, 21,5% as Muslims, 2,4% as Jews, 0,9% and Buddhists, 0,8% as Hindus, 6,0% as from another religion and 9,9% declared themselves non-religious.

===Religion breakdown=== 
The although the state is [[Wikipedia:secular state|secular]], the Yazminian constitution recognize [[Wikipedia:Christians|Christianism]], [[Wikipedia:Muslims|Islam]] and [[Wikipedia:Jewish|Judaism]] as own and [[Wikipedia:Paganism|Paganism]], [[Wikipedia:Buddhism|Buddhism]], [[Wikipedia:Hinduism|Hinduism]] and [[Wikipedia:Animism|Paskian Animism]] as part of Yazminian cultural heritage.

Last year atheists and agnostics positions are gaining ground, especially among young people, and only the immigration slowed a bit its raise. Only new-religious movements like [[wiki:Universalism|Liberal faiths]] and [[Wikipedia:Paganism|Paganism]] have grown in number since the last census.
  
{| class="wikitable"
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! Religion !! Religious !! Ethnic
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| [[Wikipedia:Christians|Christians]]<br><font size=1>[[Wikipedia:Catholicism|Catholics]]<br>[[Wikipedia:Protestantism|Protestants]]|| 60,1%<br><font size=1>39,0%<br>9,5%|| 79,8%<br><font size=1>64,0%<br>15,5%
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| [[Wikipedia:Muslims|Muslisms]] || 11,5% || 13,6%
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| [[Wikipedia:Jewish|Jewish]] || 3,5% || 4,7%
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Paganism|Paganism]] || 0,8% || 0,4%
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Buddhism|Buddhism]] || 0,5% || 0,8%
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Hinduism|Hinduism]] || 0,4% || 0,6%
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Animism|Animism]] || 0,1% || 0,1%
|-
| Other || 3,9% ||
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Irreligion|No religion]] || 19,1% ||
|}

===Languages===

[[Wikipedia:Esperanto|Yazminian]] is the [[Wikipedia:official language|official State language]]. It's a constructed language based on the different languages and dialects. It was created on the mid-18th century, when Yazminia became an unitary State. It's mostly used for national issues and interregional communication. It's also used in Yazminian colonies, and it's also the form taught to foreigners.

There are also 31 regional dialects, grouped linguistically into 10 families. Those so-called families are recognized by linguists as lenguages on their own, and those dialects as variants of them.

Due to immigration many foreign languages are also spoken natively inside Yazminia.

===Education===

The Yazminian public education it's divided universities, high schools, elementary schools, preschool classes and kindergartens. Universities are operated by the State, high schools by the regions and elementary schools, preschool classes and kindergartens locally.

Private schools were seen as elitist and reactionary by revolutionaries, and many were assaulted and closed during and after the revolution. Still, many semi-private institutions remain in the country, all of them specialized centers or foreign-language institutions.

Homeschooling, instead, is illegal since the Revolution in order to avoid isolationism and religious fanaticism.

Schooling is mandatory from the 5 years to the 16. The basic literacy rate is approximately 100%.

===Healthcare===

The Yazminian public healthcare it's operated locally and its coverage it's [[wiki:Universal_health:care|universal]]. The State, regions and local councils guarantee the right to health care in all the territory. It's listed by [[wiki:World_Health_Organization|WHO]] as one of the better in the world. It account the whole attendance by Yazminians for the primary care.

After the Revolution, private hospitals and clinics were prohibited, although some operations listed as secondary such as transgender or abortion were not free inside the public system. In 2011, with social conservatives in power, the State removed the secondary care from the public health system, letting those operations into a liberalized market.

The average life expectancy for 2010 in Yazminia was 82 for men and 83 for women, significantly higher figures than two decades ago.

[[Yazminia in the Internatia Song Contest]]

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