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ID: 1090055
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090055
Record Type:
administrative
Port-Gentil (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 40 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 008 50 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Gabon's main port & industrial center; exports okoumé wood; discovery of offshore oil in 1956 stimulated commercial & industrial growth; has oil refinery, brewery, chemical plant, furniture factories; produces plywood & veneer.
Names:
Port-Gentil
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Port Gentil
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Gabon
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ogooué-Maritime
(province) (
P
)
................
Port-Gentil
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first explored, 1473
city (
C
)
............
by end of 19th cen.
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
............
since 1956
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Port Gentil..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 619
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
154
Port-Gentil..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 5 November 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 619
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
154
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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