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ID: 1014398
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1014398
Record Type:
administrative
Yellowknife (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 62 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 62.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 114 29 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -114.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest settlement in Northwest Territories; situated on N shore of Great Slave Lake; gold was discovered in area in 1934; connected by highway to Hay river & Alberta.
Names:
Yellowknife
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
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Northwest Territories
(territory) (
P
)
................
Yellowknife
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1935
city (
C
)
............
incorporated 1970
capital (
C
)
............
of Northwest Territories since 1967
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Yellowknife..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 833
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-576282
.......................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
215
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 833
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-576282
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
215
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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