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Descriptor English: New Brunswick
Descriptor Spanish: Nuevo Brunswick
Descriptor New Brunswick
Scope note: Provincia oriental de Canadá, una de las provincias marítimas, con NUEVA ESCOCIA, la ISLA DEL PRINCIPE EDUARDO y, algunas veces, TERRANOVA Y LABRADOR. Su capital es Fredericton. Se llamó así en honor del rey Jorge III, de la Casa de Hanover, también denominada Brunswick. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p828 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p375)
Descriptor Portuguese: Novo Brunswick
Descriptor French: Nouveau-Brunswick
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.494
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009509
Scope note: A province of eastern Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces with NOVA SCOTIA; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; and sometimes NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Its capital is Fredericton. It was named in honor of King George III, of the House of Hanover, also called Brunswick. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p828 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p375)
Annotation: a province of eastern Canada
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 9696
Unique ID: D009509
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2007/07/11
New Brunswick - Preferred
Concept UI M0014789
Scope note A province of eastern Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces with NOVA SCOTIA; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; and sometimes NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Its capital is Fredericton. It was named in honor of King George III, of the House of Hanover, also called Brunswick. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p828 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p375)
Preferred term New Brunswick



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