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ID: 1090170
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090170
Record Type:
administrative
Obuasi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 001 36 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed with discovery of large gold deposit in 1897 & arrival of railway in 1902; today is center for one of the world's richest gold mines; is market center for cocoa.
Names:
Obuasi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ghana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ashanti
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Obuasi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Obuasi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 858
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
143
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 858
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
143
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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