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| | St Kitts & Nevis |
 | | Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of, independent state, eastern Caribbean Sea, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprising two of the Leeward Islands, Saint Kitts (or Saint Christopher) and Nevis, in the West Indies. |
 | | Basseterre (population, 1985 estimate, 18,500) is the country's capital and the chief port on St. Kitts; Charlestown (population, 1980 census, 1243), is the chief port on Nevis and the birthplace of the 18th-century statesman Alexander Hamilton. |
 | | Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla were united as a British dependency in 1871 that became an internally self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States in 1967. |
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