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ID: 1082935
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082935
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sandakan (inhabited place)  Sandakan (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 5.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 118 04 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 118.0667  decimal degrees

Note: Suffered great destruction under Japanese occupation in WW II 1942-1945; mainly populated by Chinese; economic activity includes building of boats, cutch extraction, freezing & packing of prawns; connected by road to Kota Kinabalu; has an airport.

Names:
Sandakan (preferred,C,V)
Elopura (H,V)  ............ original name, 1847

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sabah (state)  ............  Sabah (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Sandakan (inhabited place)  ................  Sandakan (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1847
town (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of British N Borneo until 1947

Sources and Contributors:
Elopura..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 408
Sandakan..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 408
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 173
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 408
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 173
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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