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ID: 1090526
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090526
Record Type:
administrative
Nakuru (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 16 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 036 04 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.0667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located near the Mau Escarpment, in key position halfway between the nation's capital & Kisumu on the Kenya-Uganda railroad & trans-Kenya highway; is headquarters for Kenya Farmers Association & Egerton College for agricultural training.
Names:
Nakuru
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kenya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nakuru
(county) (
P
)
................
Nakuru
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Hyrax Hill
.......... (prehistoric site)
..............................
(World, Africa, Kenya, Nakuru) [7059194]
Sources and Contributors:
Nakuru..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 491
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
136
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 491
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
136
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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