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ID: 1091784
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091784
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Maradi (inhabited place)  Maradi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 007 06 03 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.1017  decimal degrees

Note: Rebuilt on higher land after floods destroyed the town in 1945; industries include cotton & peanut processing, & leather tanning; at major junction of the trans-Niger road (opened in 1980) linking Niamey & Zinder.

Names:
Maradi (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Niger (nation)  ........  Niger (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Maradi (region (administrative division))  ............  Maradi (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Maradi (inhabited place)  ................  Maradi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Maradi..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 812
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 122
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 812
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 5 December 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 122
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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