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ID: 1091015
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091015
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Toliara (inhabited place)  Toliara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 23 20 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -23.3333  decimal degrees
Long: 043 41 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 43.6833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Saint-Augustin Bay of the Mozambique Channel; port is an outlet for agricultural produce of the interior; industries include sisal processing, cattle breeding, & the production of soap & food products; site of armed uprising in April 1971.

Names:
Toliara (preferred,C,V)
Toliary (C,V)
Tuléar (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Madagascar (nation)  ........  Madagascar (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Toliara (province)  ............  Toliara (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Toliara (inhabited place)  ................  Toliara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Toliara..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 831
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
Toliary..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 831
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1218
Tuléar..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 831
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1218
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 831
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1218
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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