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ID: 7000369
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000369
Record Type:
administrative
Benguela (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 34 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -12.5667
decimal degrees
Long: 013 24 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 13.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Is political, commercial, & industrial coordinating center; linked by railway with Zaire & Zimbabwe; is trade center for agricultural produce, sugar, processed fish, soap, tools & pottery.
Names:
Benguela
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Benguella
(
C
,
V
)
Sõ Filipe de Benguela
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Angola
(nation) (
P
)
............
Benguela
(province) (
P
)
................
Benguela
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1617
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Benguela..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Benguella..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 101
Sõ Filipe de Benguela..........
[
VP
]
......................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 101
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 101
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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