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ID: 1084819
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084819
Record Type:
administrative
Al-Hufūf (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 25.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 049 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 49.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Oasis town in E Saudi Arabia; highway links it to Arabian Gulf port of Al 'Uqayr; noted for airfield & railway; site of great 19th-cen. mosque.
Names:
Al-Hufūf
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hufūf, al
(
C
,
V
)
Hofuf
(
C
,
V
)
Hofūf
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Saudi Arabia
(nation) (
P
)
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Ash Sharqīyah
(province) (
P
)
................
Al-Hufūf
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
oasis (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Hufūf..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Hofuf..........
[
VP
]
..............
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-74
Hofūf..........
[
VP
]
..............
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
275
Hufūf, al..........
[
VP
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
275
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
275
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-74
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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