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ID: 1088159 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1088159			Record Type: administrative

Bamenda (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 57 32 N degrees minutes			Lat: 5.9597 decimal degrees
Long: 010 08 42 E degrees minutes			Long: 10.1460 decimal degrees

Note: Affected by heavy rainfall & rugged relief, making communications difficult; trade center for local agricultural products; site of the Bamenda Museum displaying wood, ivory & clay works; site of a German fort that is a relic of the colonial period.

Names:

Bamenda (preferred,C,V,English-P)

באמנדה (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Africa (continent) (P)

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Cameroun (nation) (P)

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Nord-Ouest (region (administrative division)) (P)

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Bamenda (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded 1912
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

באמנדה..........	[IMJ]
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Bamenda..........	[IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 854
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 20

Subject: .....	[IMJ, VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 854
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 25 September 2014
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 20


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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