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ID: 1001716
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mwanza (region)  Mwanza (region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 02 25 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -2.4167  decimal degrees
Long: 033 35 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 33.5833  decimal degrees

Note: The country's leading producer of cotton; other important cash crops are citrus fruits, cassava, rice & sweet potatoes; considerable livestock trade despite tsetse-fly infestation; land characterized by miombo woodland & savanna.

Names:
Mwanza (preferred,C,V)
Mwanza region (C,O,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanzania (nation)  ........  Tanzania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mwanza (region)  ............  Mwanza (region) (P)

Place Types:
region (preferred, C)  ............  established 1963
first level subdivision (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Mwanza..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 461
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 93
Mwanza region..........  [VP]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 461
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 93
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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