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ID: 1081185
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1081185
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sakai (inhabited place)  Sakai (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 135 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 135.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Manufactures machinery, hosiery, chemicals & dyes, fertilizer & automobile parts; has many earthen tombs, including that of Emperor Nitoku; a leading seaport during 16th cen.

Names:
Sakai (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Japan (nation)  ........  Japan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ōsaka (prefecture)  ............  Ōsaka (prefecture) (P)
Hierarchy of Sakai (inhabited place)  ................  Sakai (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
industrial center (C)
port (H)  ............  during 16th cen., but declined after silting up of harbor

Sources and Contributors:
Sakai..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 172
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1055
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 172
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1055
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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