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ID: 7005218 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005218			Record Type: administrative

Nakhon Pathom (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 50 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 13.8333 decimal degrees
Long: 100 01 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 100.0167 decimal degrees

Note: Located on Mekong river at important overland crossroads; ancient religious & military center; traditionally more than 2,000 years old & visited by Buddha; artifacts verify habitation since at least 6th cen. BC; site of Thailand's largest Buddhist temple.

Names:

Nakhon Pathom (preferred,C,V)

Nagara Pathom (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Thailand (nation) (P)

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Nakhon Pathom (province) (P)

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Nakhon Pathom (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	settled by at least 6th cen. BC
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
commercial center (C)
transportation center (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Nagara Pathom..........	[VP]
..........................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 634

Nakhon Pathom..........	[VP Preferred]
..........................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 491
..........................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 135

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 634
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 491
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 135


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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