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ID: 1090442
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090442
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Embu (inhabited place)  Embu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 00 32 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -0.5333  decimal degrees
Long: 037 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 37.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Increased missionary activity in the 1930s led to establishment of several schools; produces processed food, clothes, footwear, beverages & furniture; connected by road to Nairobi & Meru; town has an airfield.

Names:
Embu (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenya (nation)  ........  Kenya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Embu (county)  ............  Embu (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Embu (inhabited place)  ................  Embu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by British 1906
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
market center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Embu..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 471-472
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 62
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 601
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 471-472
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 62
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 601
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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