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ID: 1085669
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1085669
Record Type:
administrative
Sakon Nakhon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 104 08 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 104.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on a small lake (Nong Han) with an outlet to the Mekong; surrounding area is home to the Phu Thai people, & center of chronic insurgencies, including the Free Thai of WW II & Communists in 1950s.
Names:
Sakon Nakhon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Sakol Nakorn
(
C
,
V
)
Muang Sakon Nakhon
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Prathet Thai
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sakon Nakhon
(province) (
P
)
................
Sakon Nakhon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Muang Sakon Nakhon..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
133
Sakol Nakorn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1055
Sakon Nakhon..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 344
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
172
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 344
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
133; 172
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1055
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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