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ID: 7002169
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002169
Record Type:
administrative
Mandalay (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 096 04 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 96.0667
decimal degrees
Note:
Capital of division and district that both have the same name; religious center for Burmese Buddhists; terminus of Burma Road; noted for many pagodas, moated citadel, palace, and halls; largely destroyed in WW II.
Names:
Mandalay
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Myanmar
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mandalay
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Mandalay
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
of Kingdom of Burma, 1860-1885
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Mandalay
.......... (region (administrative division))
..................................
(World, Asia, Myanmar) [7002171]
Sources and Contributors:
Mandalay..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
722
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
722
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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