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ID: 1094576
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094576
Record Type:
administrative
Dodoma (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 10 58 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -6.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 035 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Relocation of national capital from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma began in early 1980s; much of population is employed in small-scale farming; city also produces beverages, processed food, milled rice & furniture.
Names:
Dodoma
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Dodoma
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Dodoma
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
designated 1974
regional capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Tanzania
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000203]
..................
official capital
Sources and Contributors:
Dodoma..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 148
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
56
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 148
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 1 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
56
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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