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ID: 1092479
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092479
Record Type:
administrative
Kigali (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 54 57 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 030 04 58 E
degrees minutes
Long: 30.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Nation's fastest growing city; has a Muslim quarter; industry includes shoe, paint & varnish, radio assembly & tanning factories; home to tin-mining companies.
Names:
Kigali
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rwanda
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kigali City
(special city) (
P
)
................
Kigali
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
upon independence, 1962
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
regional center (
H
)
............
during Belgian period, 1919-62
trade center (
H
)
............
during German period, 1895
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Rwanda
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [7001682]
Sources and Contributors:
Kigali..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 857
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 857
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 7 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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