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ID: 1087164
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087164
Record Type:
administrative
Lào Cai (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 22.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 103 58 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 103.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located near border between Vietnam & China; strategically important due to location on Haiphong railway to Yunnan province, China; came under French rule in 1886.
Names:
Lào Cai
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lào, Cai
(
C
,
V
)
Cai Lào
(
C
,
V
)
Lao Cai
(
C
,
V
)
Laokay
(
C
,
V
)
Lao-cai
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Viet Nam
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tỉnh Lào Cai
(province) (
P
)
................
Lào Cai
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cai Lào..........
[
VP
]
.................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Lào, Cai..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Gazetteer of Vietnam (1986)
II, 594
Lao Cai..........
[
VP
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1991)
732
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
648
Lao-cai..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-96
Lào Cai..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2015
Laokay..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
648
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1991)
732
..................
Gazetteer of Vietnam (1986)
II, 594
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-96
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
648
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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