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ID: 1092510
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092510
Record Type:
administrative
Kaolack (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 10 55 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.1825
decimal degrees
Long: 016 15 10 W
degrees minutes
Long: -16.2533
decimal degrees
Note:
Major transshipment point for exporting peanuts (groundnuts) & salt; connected by rail with Guinguinéo & the Dakar-Niger railroad; center of the Islamic order of Tijānīyah whose al-Hāij Ibrāhīm Niasse mosque is located nearby.
Names:
Kaolack
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kaolak
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sénégal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kaolack
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Kaolack
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kaolack..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
709
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 730
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
94
Kaolak..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
589
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
709
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 730
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 February 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
94
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
589
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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