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ID: 1092913
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092913
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brakpan (inhabited place)  Brakpan (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 15 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -26.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 028 22 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 28.3667  decimal degrees

Note: E of Johannesburg; part of the East Rand area mining & industrial center within the Witwatersrand; grew quickly after coal & gold were discovered in 1888 & 1905; has residential suburban areas separate from the diversified industrial sites.

Names:
Brakpan (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1886

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gauteng (province)  ............  Gauteng (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Brakpan (inhabited place)  ................  Brakpan (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  developed rapidly after discovery of coal & gold in late 1800s
town (C)  ............  proclaimed officially, 1919

Sources and Contributors:
Brakpan..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 467
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 467
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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