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ID: 1094266
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094266
Record Type:
administrative
Jūbā (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 031 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
A commercial center for tobacco, coffee & chillies; headquarters of the University of Jūbā; upon agreement to unify The Sudan, the town became leader of southern resistance to northern domination; the unrest led to Sudanese civil war 1955.
Names:
Jūbā
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Juba
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Sudan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Central Equatoria
(state) (
P
)
................
Jūbā
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
South Sudan
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [7441551]
Sources and Contributors:
Jūbā..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 634
Juba..........
[
VP
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
93
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 634
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
93
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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