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ID: 1089333
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089333
Record Type:
administrative
Mbuji-Mayi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 09 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -6.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 023 36 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed as a mining town by Europeans after diamonds were discovered in the region in 1909; the area produces most of the world's industrial diamonds; population grew rapidly after the republic's independence in 1960.
Names:
Mbuji-Mayi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Mbuji Mayi
(
C
,
V
)
Bakwanga
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo, République Démocratique du
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kasaï-Oriental
(province) (
P
)
................
Mbuji-Mayi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as a mining center in early 1900s
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bakwanga..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 986
Mbuji-Mayi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 986
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Mbuji Mayi..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 986
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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