| NOUN | location | Tarawa, Bairiki | national capital of Kiribati |
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| act | Tarawa, Makin, Tarawa-Makin | battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943) |
| Meaning | national capital of Kiribati. | |
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| Synonym | Bairiki | |
| Instance of | national capital | The capital city of a nation |
| Part of | Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati | An island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator |
| Spanish | Bairiki, Tarawa | |
| Meaning | battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting. | |
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| Synonyms | Makin, Tarawa-Makin | |
| Instance of | amphibious assault | An amphibious operation attacking a land base that is carried out by troops / troops that are landed by naval ships |
| Part of | World War II, World War 2, Second World War | A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945 |
| Region | Gilbert Islands | A group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
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