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ID: 6001035
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6001035
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Burma Road (road)  Burma Road (road)

Note: Road linking K'un-Ming (southwest China) and Lashio (central Burma); built by Chinese 1937-1939 to carry supplies into China during the Sino-Japanese War; also used in WW II until closed by Japanese 1942; reopened in 1945 and extended to India; total length 3400 km.

Names:
Burma Road (preferred,C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Burma Road (road)  ........  Burma Road (road) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Myanmar (nation)  ........  Myanmar (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Burma Road (road)  ............  Burma Road (road)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of China (nation)  ........  China (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Burma Road (road)  ............  Burma Road (road) (P)

Place Types:
road (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Burma Road..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 134
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 192
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 134
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 192
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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