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Prince Edward Island

An island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence constituting a province of Canada in the eastern part of the country. It is very irregular in shape with many deep inlets. Its capital is Charlottetown. Discovered by the French in 1534 and originally named Ile Saint-Jean, it was renamed in 1799 in honor of Prince Edward, fourth son of George III and future father of Queen Victoria. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p981 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p433)

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An island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence constituting a province of Canada in the eastern part of the country. It is very irregular in shape with many deep inlets. Its capital is Charlottetown. Discovered by the French in 1534 and originally named Ile Saint-Jean, it was renamed in 1799 in honor of Prince Edward, fourth son of George III and future father of Queen Victoria. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p981 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p433)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a province of eastern Canada

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  1. Z01w.107w.567w.176w.732w
  2. Z01w.639w.820w

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Prince Edward Island. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011325. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011325
  2. Prince Edward Island. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island
  3. Prince Edward Island. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1978