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<BODY text="#000066" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red" background="index12.gif"> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" ALT="Table of Contents" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index11.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" ALT="Previous" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <BR> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"><TR> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=53><br></TD></TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=27><br></td> <TD WIDTH=334 HEIGHT=27 align="left" valign="top" > <FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="+2">Notes</FONT></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD COLSPAN=0><SPACER type="horizontal" size=159><br></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=31><br></TD></TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=226><br></td> <TD WIDTH=339 HEIGHT=226 align="left" valign="top" > <LI><FONT face="Arial"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="-2">Information about National Spiritual Assemblies, Continental Counsellors, Auxiliary Board members, and Publishing Trusts is as of Ridván 2001, as are the figures on the countries and territories where the Faith is established.<BR> <LI>The statistics for Local Spiritual Assemblies and localities come primarily from the 2000 Annual Statistical Reports from National Spiritual Assemblies, which contain information as of 2 May 2000. Especially the latter figures should be taken as estimates since it is not always possible for National Spiritual Assemblies to provide exact counts.<BR> <LI>The figures for indigenous tribes, races and ethnic groups and for languages into which Bahá'í literature is translated, were last updated in 1986.<BR> <LI>Issued by the Department of Statistics, Bahá'í World Centre, August 2001 CE.<BR> </FONT></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD COLSPAN=0><SPACER type="horizontal" size=154><br></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=0 HEIGHT=5><br></TD></TR> </TABLE> <HR ALIGN="left" size=5 WIDTH="65%"> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <BR> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com">Lotus</A>® <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com/freelance">Freelance Graphics</A>®</FONT> </BODY>