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ID: 7002888
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lorraine (region)  Lorraine (region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 006 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Part of Paris Basin except for the massif of the Vosges in the east; contains large iron ore deposits; population is heavily concentrated along Moselle river between Nancy and Thionville; see also the historical region of Lorraine.

Names:
Lorraine (preferred,C,V)
Lothringen (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lorraine (region)  ............  Lorraine (region) (P)

Place Types:
region (preferred, C)
first level subdivision (C)

Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....  Lorraine .......... (historical region)
..................................  (World, Europe) [7024272]

Sources and Contributors:
Lorraine..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 211
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 19; 427
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 15 April 1999
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 67
Lothringen..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-101
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 211
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 19; 427
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 15 April 1999
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-101
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 67
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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