The share-alike field should have held 65, not 7
regions-plugin challenged the record I had just written, and they were right. I gave the 7 explicitly-named
ShareAlike countries their own field because share-alike is a stronger duty than attribution — and by that
same reasoning the field should hold 65. Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0 is itself a SHARE-ALIKE licence for
databases: alongside attribution it requires a Derivative Database be offered under ODbL, and it carries a
keep-open provision. So my 58 ODbL countries are the same class as my 7, and separating them buried exactly
what the field existed to surface.
★ WHAT CONVINCED ME WAS THIS REPO, NOT THE LICENCE TEXT. regions pointed at
library/scripts/posters/data/README.md:36-50, and I read it: Natural Earth's 1:10m ROADS were requested and
DELIBERATELY NOT SHIPPED because of an ODbL attribution obligation. Someone here already dropped a whole
dataset over this class of duty. An argument from the licence would have been my reading of a clause; an
argument from a decision already taken in this tree is evidence.
THE RECORD NOW SPLITS THREE WAYS, with the iso3 lists so each is checkable:
32 duty-free (28 Public Domain + 4 CC0)
65 attribution-only
65 SHARE-ALIKE CLASS (58 ODbL 1.0 + 7 explicit ShareAlike)
That is a materially different picture from "130 need attribution, 7 are stronger": it says HALF the
duty-bearing countries may constrain how a derivative is licensed, not merely how it is credited.
⚠ AND IT IS EXPLICITLY NOT A LEGAL CONCLUSION. Whether a redistributed boundary file is a "Derivative
Database" under ODbL is precisely the clause a giveaway needs a real answer on, and neither regions-plugin
nor I is qualified to give it. The record says so in _duty_classes._open and the question goes up with the
other licensing items — visible rather than settled by omission, which is the same failure the empty
`licences: {}` was.
The table stays here as the single source of truth; regions' data/boundaries/ATTRIBUTION references it by
path rather than copying it, because one table in two places drifts.
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"endpoint": "https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/<LEVEL>/",
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"note": "gbOpen passes through each country UPSTREAM licence — this collection is MIXED-LICENCE with per-country attribution duties.",
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"adm0_features": 162,
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"_duty": "130 of the 162 countries carry an ATTRIBUTION or SHARE-ALIKE duty that travels with any redistribution of boundaries/world-adm0*.geojson. Only 32 are duty-free (Public Domain or CC0). This matters because the repo is intended to be given away: CC BY obligations are not discharged by shipping the file, they are discharged by naming the source. See data/boundaries/ATTRIBUTION.",
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"_shareAlike": "These 7 are ShareAlike, a STRONGER duty than attribution — a derivative may have to be licensed alike. Flagged separately because a blanket 'CC BY' summary would hide them: AGO, GAB, GEO, GIN, MMR, NER, TUR",
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"_duty": "130 of the 162 countries carry a duty that travels with any redistribution of boundaries/world-adm0*.geojson; only 32 are duty-free. The 130 split TWO ways and the split matters more than the total: 65 are attribution-only, and 65 are SHARE-ALIKE CLASS (58 ODbL + 7 explicit ShareAlike), which can constrain how a derivative is licensed rather than merely how it is credited. See _duty_classes. This matters because the repo is intended to be given away: these obligations are not discharged by shipping the file. See data/boundaries/ATTRIBUTION, which references this table by path.",
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"_duty_classes": {
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"_why": "THREE CLASSES, NOT TWO — corrected 2026-09-28 after regions-plugin's challenge, which was right. I first gave only the 7 explicitly-named ShareAlike countries their own field on the reasoning that share-alike is a stronger duty than attribution. By that same reasoning the field should hold 65: Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0 is itself a SHARE-ALIKE licence for databases — alongside attribution it requires a Derivative Database be offered under ODbL, and it has a keep-open provision. Separating 7 from 58 buried exactly the thing the field existed to surface.",
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"_precedent": "THIS REPO ALREADY TREATS ODbL AS CONSEQUENTIAL, which is the evidence rather than my reading of the licence: library/scripts/posters/data/README.md:36-50 records that Natural Earth's 1:10m ROADS were requested and DELIBERATELY NOT SHIPPED because of an ODbL attribution obligation. Someone here dropped a dataset over this class of duty.",
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"_open": "NOT A LEGAL CONCLUSION. Whether a redistributed boundary file is a 'Derivative Database' under ODbL is exactly the clause a giveaway needs a real answer on, and neither regions-plugin nor I is qualified to give it. Recorded here, and raised with the licensing items, so the question is visible rather than settled by omission.",
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"duty_free": {
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"count": 32,
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"iso3": [
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"AFG",
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"ALB",
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"AND",
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"ARE",
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"ATG",
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"BEN",
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"BGD",
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"BGR",
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"BHS",
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"BIH",
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"BOL",
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"BRN",
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"CHN",
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"CIV",
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"COL",
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"DJI",
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"ECU",
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"GHA",
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"IND",
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"IRN",
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"IRQ",
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"JAM",
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"KEN",
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"LBN",
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"LBY",
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"LCA",
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"MLT",
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"PAN",
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"PER",
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"SLB",
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"USA",
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"VEN"
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]
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},
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"attribution_only": {
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"count": 65,
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"iso3": [
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"ABW",
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"ARM",
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"ASM",
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"AZE",
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"BFA",
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"BLM",
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"BLR",
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"BMU",
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"BRA",
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"BRB",
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"BTN",
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"CAF",
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"CMR",
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"COK",
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"CUW",
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"CYM",
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"CZE",
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"DMA",
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"ESP",
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"FRO",
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"FSM",
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"GGY",
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"GLP",
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"GMB",
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"GRC",
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"GUF",
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"GUM",
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"GUY",
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"ISL",
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"JOR",
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"JPN",
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"LBR",
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"MDV",
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"MLI",
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"MNP",
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"MRT",
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"MSR",
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"MYT",
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"NAM",
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"NCL",
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"NGA",
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"NIU",
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"NPL",
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"NZL",
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"PHL",
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"PRK",
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"PRY",
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"PSE",
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"PYF",
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"SDN",
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"SEN",
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"SHN",
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"SLE",
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"SOM",
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"SSD",
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"SWE",
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"TCA",
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"TZA",
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"VGB",
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"VIR",
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"VNM",
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"WLF",
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"ZAF",
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"ZMB",
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"ZWE"
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]
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},
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"share_alike_class": {
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"count": 65,
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"odbl_1_0": {
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"count": 58,
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"iso3": [
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"BHR",
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"COD",
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"COG",
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"COM",
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"CUB",
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"CYP",
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"DZA",
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"EGY",
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"ERI",
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"ETH",
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"FIN",
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"FJI",
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"GNB",
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"GNQ",
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"GRD",
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"IDN",
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"ISR",
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"KAZ",
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"KGZ",
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"KHM",
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"KIR",
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"KWT",
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"LAO",
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"LIE",
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"LKA",
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"LUX",
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"MAR",
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"MHL",
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"MNE",
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"MNG",
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"MOZ",
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"MUS",
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"MWI",
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"MYS",
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"OMN",
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"PAK",
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"PLW",
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"PNG",
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"QAT",
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"RUS",
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"SAU",
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"SMR",
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"STP",
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"SUR",
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"SWZ",
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"SYR",
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"TCD",
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"TGO",
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"THA",
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"TJK",
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"TON",
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"TUN",
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"UGA",
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"UZB",
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"VCT",
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"VUT",
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"WSM",
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"YEM"
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]
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},
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"explicit_sharealike": {
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"count": 7,
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"iso3": [
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"AGO",
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"GAB",
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"GEO",
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"GIN",
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"MMR",
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"NER",
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"TUR"
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]
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}
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}
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"summary": {
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"countries": 162,
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"duty_free": 32,
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