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ID: 7001528
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001528
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chandīgarh (inhabited place)  Chandīgarh (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 30 44 11 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 30.7363  decimal degrees
Long: 076 47 18 E  degrees minutes   Long: 76.7884  decimal degrees

Note: Interim capital of both Punjab and Haryana states and capital of federally administered territory of same name; city designed by Le Corbusier along with Indian architects; important communications junction; has a government museum & art gallery.

Names:
Chandīgarh (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Chandigarh (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Punjab (state)  ............  Punjab (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Chandīgarh (inhabited place)  ................  Chandīgarh (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Haryāna (state)  ............  Haryāna (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Chandīgarh (inhabited place)  ................  Chandīgarh (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chandīgarh (union territory)  ............  Chandīgarh (union territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Chandīgarh (inhabited place)  ................  Chandīgarh (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
capital (C)  ............  of union territory
state capital (C)  ............  chosen to replace Lahore, 1947
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)
regional capital (C)

Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....  Chandīgarh .......... (union territory)
..................................  (World, Asia, India) [7000200]

Sources and Contributors:
Chandīgarh..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 77-78
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Chandigarh..........  [BHA, VP]
.......................  Avery Index (1965-)
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Avery Index (1965-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 77-78
..................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2092770
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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