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ID: 1140696
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1140696
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hovd (inhabited place)  Hovd (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 091 43 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 91.7167  decimal degrees

Note: One of 2 inhabited places with same name but different coordinates in Chovd province; located on main highway in NW section of province; principal trading center for W Mongolia; market for cattle & sheep.

Names:
Hovd (preferred,C,V)
Chovd (C,V)
Khovd (C,V)
Khobdo (C,V)
Kobdo (C,V)
Dzhirgalantu (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mongolia (nation)  ........  Mongolia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hovd (province)  ............  Hovd (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Hovd (inhabited place)  ................  Hovd (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
trade center (C)

Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....  Hovd .......... (inhabited place)
..................................  (World, Asia, Mongolia, Hovd) [1140697]

Sources and Contributors:
Chovd..........  [VP]
..............  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 661
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-36
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515-516
Dzhirgalantu..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515
Hovd..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 86
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515
Khobdo..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515
Khovd..........  [VP]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 273
Kobdo..........  [VP]
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 661
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 273
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-36
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 86
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 515; 515-516
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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