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ID: 7012924
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012924
Record Type:
administrative
Indianapolis (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 46 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 086 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in fertile corn belt, near coal fields; city was laid out on a radial plan similar to Washington, DC; grew when National (Cumberland) Road was routed through here in 1827; produces pharmaceuticals, machinery & electrical equipment.
Names:
Indianapolis
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Indiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Marion
(county) (
P
)
....................
Indianapolis
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1821
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1825
transportation center (
C
)
............
for road, air & rail traffic, noted as one of world's most populous cities not located on navigable water
agricultural center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
sporting center (
C
)
............
especially noted for Indianapolis 500 automobile race, since 1911
educational center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Indiana
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007252]
Sources and Contributors:
Indianapolis..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
6:291-292
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18007909
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 291-292; 6:291-292
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18007909
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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