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ID: 1093801
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093801
Record Type:
administrative
Welkom (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 59 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -27.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 026 44 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 26.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located SW of Johannesburg, in area of gold & uranium mines; industries include slaughtering, steelmaking, sawmilling & assorted manufacturing; site of a technical college, an institute of technology & an airport.
Names:
Welkom
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Free State
(province) (
P
)
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Welkom
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1947
city (
C
)
............
since 1968
mining center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Welkom..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 570
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
214
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 570
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
214
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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