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ID: 1090473
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090473

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kisumu (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenya (nation)  ........  Kenya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kisumu (county)  ............  Kisumu (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Kisumu (inhabited place)  ................  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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