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ID: 7024622
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7024622
Record Type:
administrative
Skåne (county)
Coordinates:
Lat: 55 58 58 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 55.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 013 30 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 13.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Occupies peninsula at southern tip of Sweden; area has a series of ridges in sourthern section, caused by geologic faulting; noted for summer resorts along flat northern coast, & fertile plains inland.
Names:
Skåne
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Skåne Län
(
C
,
V
)
Scania
(
C
,
V
)
Skane Lan
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sweden
(nation) (
P
)
............
Skåne
(county) (
P
)
Place Types:
county (
preferred
,
C
)
............
created in 1997, by merging of Malmöhus & Kristianstad counties
first level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Scania..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 05/30/2000
Skåne..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 05/30/2000
Skane Lan..........
[
VP
]
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 05/30/2000
Skåne Län..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 12 August 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 05/30/2000
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 12 August 2014
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 05/30/2000
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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