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ID: 7002909
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002909
Record Type:
administrative
Sharjah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 25.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 055 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 55.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Persian Gulf; capital & main settlement of Sharjah emirate; port was long an important commercial & strategic center; industries include shipping & water desalination.
Names:
Ash-Shāriqah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ash Shariqah
(
C
,
V
)
Sharjah
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Port Khalid
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Arab Emirates
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sharjah
(emirate) (
P
)
................
Sharjah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ash-Shāriqah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ash Shariqah..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Port Khalid..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
585
Sharjah..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 701
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1104
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
585
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 701
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1104
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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