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ID: 7000594
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000594
Record Type:
administrative
Mbandaka (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 02 55 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 0.0480
decimal degrees
Long: 018 15 36 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.2603
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by explorer Henry M Stanley, who named it Equator; became a colonial administrative center in 1886; located at the confluence of the Congo (Zaïre) & Ruki rivers; economy is based on shipping, agriculture & forest products.
Names:
Mbandaka
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Coquilhatville
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Equator
(
H
,
O
)
............
named in 1883
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Équateur
(province) (
P
)
................
Mbandaka
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1883
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Coquilhatville..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 984
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
745
Equator..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
Mbandaka..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 984
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
745
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 581
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 984
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 8 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
745
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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