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ID: 1090473
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090473
Record Type:
administrative
Kisumu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 08 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.1333
decimal degrees
Long: 034 47 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 34.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
The nation's third largest city; located on NE shore of Lake Victoria; provides water & rail links in the Lake Victoria-Mombasa trade route; is main terminus for agricultural produce of Nyanza & Western regions; site of an industrial park.
Names:
Kisumu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Port Florence
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kenya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kisumu
(county) (
P
)
................
Kisumu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kisumu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 895
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
616
Port Florence..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
616
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 895
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
616
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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