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ID: 1082877
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082877
Record Type:
administrative
Miri (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 114 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 114.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
S of Tanjong Baram on S China Sea; located in rubber & rice growing region; headquarters for administration of N part of Sarawak state; neighboring oil fields opened 1911; is S terminus of coastal road from Bandar Seri Begawan.
Names:
Miri
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malaysia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sarawak
(state) (
P
)
................
Miri
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since 1911
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Miri..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 181
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
128
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 181
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
128
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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