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ID: 1092895
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092895
Record Type:
administrative
Boksburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 13 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 028 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Industrial & mining center located E of Johannesburg; produces electrical equipment, freight cars, soap, & glazed ceramics; recently, deeper shafts have been cut to allow further gold mining.
Names:
Boksburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Africa
(continent) (
P
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South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
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Boksburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established 1887
town (
C
)
............
incorporated 1903
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Boksburg..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 335
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
30
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
157
Subject:
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VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 335
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
30
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
157
Note:
English
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VP
]
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