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ID: 1088224
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1088224
Record Type:
administrative
Maroua (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 35 24 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.5909
decimal degrees
Long: 014 18 54 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.3159
decimal degrees
Note:
An important marketing center; has a textile research institute, a cotton factory & an agricultural school; a handicraft center; site of an ethnographic museum, a Protestant Church & several mosques.
Names:
Maroua
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Marua
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Cameroon
(nation) (
P
)
............
Far North Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Maroua
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
market center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Maroua..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
Marua..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 868
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 868
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 September 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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