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ID: 1140755
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1140755
Record Type:
administrative
San Fernando (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 16 39 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 16.6500
decimal degrees
Long: 120 19 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 120.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Luzon's main W coastal highway; fishing is important industry; trades with Manila & other ports; taken by Japanese 1941; scene of fighting during US invasion 1945; has modern cathedral, a Chinese pagoda & ruins of a church built 1674 nearby.
Names:
San Fernando
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Philippines
(nation) (
P
)
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La Union
(province) (
P
)
................
San Fernando
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since 17th cen.
town (
C
)
municipality (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
San Fernando..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 388
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
174
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1065
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 388
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
174
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1065
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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