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INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Baha'is have established residence in seventy-eight countries, fifty-six of which are sovereign states. Baha'i literature has been translated and published in forty-one languages. Translations have been undertaken in twelve additional languages. Thirty-one races are represented in the Baha'i world community. Five National Assemblies and sixty-one local Assemblies belonging to ten countries are incorporated and legally empowered to hold property. The Baha'i international endowments held in the Holy Land are estimated at a half million pounds sterling. National Baha'i endowments in the United States are estimated at one million, seven hundred thousand dollars. (71:1) The area of land in the Jordan Valley dedicated to the Baha'i Shrines is over five hundred acres. The site purchased for future Baha'i Temple of Persia comprises three and a half million square meters. The cost of the structure of the first Baha'i Temple in the West has been one million, three hundred thousand dollars. (71:2) In every state and province of North America Baha'i Assemblies are functioning. In thirteen hundred localities of the United States and Canada Baha'is reside. Baha'i Centers have been established in every republic of Latin America, fifteen of which possess Spiritual Assemblies. The Faith in the Western Hemisphere now stretches from Anchorage, Alaska, to Magallanes, the world's southernmost city. Sixty-two Centers have been established in India, twenty-seven with Spiritual Assemblies.
(71:3)
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