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Shillong (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 25 34 26 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 25.5740 decimal degrees |
| Long: 091 53 49 E degrees minutes |
Long: 91.8968 decimal degrees |
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Note: Town destroyed by earthquake 1897 & completely reconstructed; former base of NE Frontier Agency until that area was made Arunachal Pradesh union territory 1972; site of research institutions for dairy farming, fruit & silkworm growing. |
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| Shillong (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| শিলং (NA,V,Bengali,U)
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| शिलांग (NA,V,Hindi,U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Shillong (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| town (C) |
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| state capital (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| provincial capital (H) |
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of Assam, 1874 |
| regional capital (C) |
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