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ID: 7000568
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000568
Record Type:
administrative
Kindu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 56 34 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -2.9437
decimal degrees
Long: 025 55 19 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.9224
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed as transportation center due to location on the Congo (Zaïre) river system; N terminus of a railroad connecting the city with nearby copper-mining regions; has road & air links with other parts of the country.
Names:
Kindu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kindu-Port-Empain
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maniema
(province) (
P
)
................
Kindu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kindu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 867
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
Kindu-Port-Empain..........
[
VP
]
................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 867
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 867
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
Note:
English
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VP
]
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