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Removing duplicates and ordering a list using java

Hi everyone, in this blog post, I will be writing about ' How to remove duplicates and order a list using java '. For removing duplicates in a list, we can put all the contents of the list to a set. For ordering the set, we can use an implementation of treeset. So in general, to remove duplicates and order a set, we could do by putting all the contents of the list to a treeset. Please refer my post about sets to understand more about treesets. Here is the java program to remove duplicates and order a list. package  com.blog.techjourney; import  java.util.ArrayList; import  java.util.List; import  java.util.Set; import  java.util.TreeSet; public   class  removeDuplicatesAndOrder {      public   static   void  main(String[] args) {         List  countries =  new  ArrayList ();                  countries.add( "Canada" );         countries.add( "Australia" );         countries.add( "Brazil" );         countries.add( "Canada"