Research Home
Tools
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Full Record Display
Vernacular Display
|
English Display
Click the
icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View
(
JSON
,
JSONLD
,
RDF
,
N3/Turtle
,
N-Triples
)
ID: 7000472
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000472
Record Type:
administrative
Douala (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 02 45 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.0469
decimal degrees
Long: 009 42 28 E
degrees minutes
Long: 9.7084
decimal degrees
Note:
Establishment of German firms in 1860s led to German Kamerun protectorate in 1884; most populous city in republic; site of a branch of the University of Yaoundé, various commercial, agricultural, industrial schools, research centers & an art museum.
Names:
Douala
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Duala
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Cameroun
(nation) (
P
)
............
Littoral
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Douala
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by 17th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Cameroon 1940-46
Sources and Contributors:
Douala..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 192
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
56
Duala..........
[
VP
]
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
341
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 192
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 September 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
56
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
341
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use
/
Privacy Policy
/
Contact Us
icon to view the hierarchy.
