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ID: 1092576
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092576
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Koidu (inhabited place)  Koidu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 08 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 8.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 010 59 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -10.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Commercial district for rice, palm oil & kernels; proximity to the diamond-mining area of the Sierra Leone Selection Trust hastened the town's development; Koidu & New Sembehun form the second largrest populated area of Sierra Leone.

Names:
Koidu (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sierra Leone (nation)  ........  Sierra Leone (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Eastern (province)  ............  Eastern (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Koidu (inhabited place)  ................  Koidu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Koidu..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 933
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 933
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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