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ID: 7000998
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000998
Record Type:
administrative
Incheon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 126 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 126.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Major port for Sŏul (40 km ENE) & connected to that city by subway; site of Japanese-Russian battles 1904; site where General MacArthur landed as head of UN forces 1950; maintains role as regional capital for Inch'ōn special city.
Names:
Incheon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Inch'ŏn
(
C
,
V
)
Inchŏn
(
C
,
V
)
Inchon
(
C
,
V
)
Intschön
(
C
,
O
)
Chemulpo
(
H
,
V
)
Jinsen
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Han'guk
(nation) (
P
)
............
Incheon
(special city) (
P
)
................
Incheon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
............
of Kyŏnggi-do, until 1981; of Inch'ŏn special city
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
treaty port (
H
)
............
opened 1883
Sources and Contributors:
Chemulpo..........
[
VP
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
345
Incheon..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 February 2024
Inch'ŏn..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1990)
653, n.1
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
283
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
534
Inchon..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
345
Inchŏn..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
Intschön..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-77
Jinsen..........
[
VP
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
345
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1990)
653, n.1
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
283
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-77
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
345
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
534
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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