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ID: 1090424
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090424
Record Type:
administrative
Yamoussoukro (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 005 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -5.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Called "Second capital" of Ivory Coast; is legal headquarters of president; designated as future national capital; site of assembly hall for political parties; has fishing, forestry & perfume industries; site of Protestant & Catholic churches.
Names:
Yamoussoukro
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Côte d'Ivoire
(nation) (
P
)
............
Yamoussoukro
(autonomous district) (
P
)
................
Yamoussoukro
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
capital (
C
)
............
"de jure" (administrative) capital of the nation; became legal capital in 1983, though seat of government has not yet moved
administrative center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Côte d'Ivoire
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000168]
Sources and Contributors:
Yamoussoukro..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 814
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
218
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1358
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 814
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
218
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1358
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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