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ID: 1089203
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089203
Record Type:
administrative
Likasi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 58 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -10.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 026 47 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 26.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Important mineral-processing center located on Likasi river; copper deposits were discovered by Belgians in 1892; has copper & cobalt refineries, chemical factories & a brewery; site of an archaeological & mineral museum.
Names:
Likasi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Jadotville
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo, République Démocratique du
(nation) (
P
)
............
Haut-Katanga
(province) (
P
)
................
Likasi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1917
city (
C
)
urban center (
C
)
............
designated 1943
Sources and Contributors:
Jadotville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 353
Likasi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 353
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
112
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 353
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
112
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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