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ID: 1082739
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082739
Record Type:
administrative
Ipoh (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 101 02 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 101.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Named after local tree that produces poisonous resin utilized for hunting by aboriginal people; town developed in late 19th cen. as British companies exploited area; today is the nation's tin-mining capital; captured by Japan in WW II in 1941.
Names:
Ipoh
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malaysia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Perak
(state) (
P
)
................
Ipoh
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
modern town dates from 1890s
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ipoh..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 418
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 371
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
89
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
546
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 418
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 371
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
89
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
546
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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