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ID: 1088107
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1088107
Record Type:
administrative
Selibe Phikwe (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -22.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 027 50 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated in center of large copper-nickel mine & smelter complex; one of fastest growing towns in the country in late 1970s; laid out as modern town for mining community by Botswana Roan Selection Trust.
Names:
Selibe Phikwe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Selebi Phikwe
(
C
,
V
)
Selebi-Phikwe
(
C
,
V
)
Selebi-Pikwe
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Botswana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Selibe Phikwe
(town council) (
P
)
................
Selibe Phikwe
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Selebi Phikwe..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
160
Selebi-Phikwe..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 616
Selebi-Pikwe..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 616
Selibe Phikwe..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 29 July 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 616
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
160
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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