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ID: 2024880
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2024880
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hilo (inhabited place)  Hilo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 19 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 19.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 155 05 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -155.0833  decimal degrees

Note: State's fourth largest city; economy based on sugarcane, orchids, macadamia nuts & livestock; site of University of Hawaii at Hilo (1947) & The Lyman Mission House & Museum (1839), which displays artifacts from the island's missionary & whaling periods.

Names:
Hilo (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hawaii (state)  ............  Hawaii (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Hawaii (county)  ................  Hawaii (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Hilo (inhabited place)  ....................  Hilo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
county seat (C)
port (C)
tourist center (C)
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Hilo..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 930
...........  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS15000882
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 930
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS15000882
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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