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ID: 7000862
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000862
Record Type:
administrative
Kampala (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 19 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 0.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 032 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Served as headquarters of Imperial British East Africa Company 1890s; exports coffee, cotton, tea, tobacco & sugar; is headquarters for most of Uganda's large firms; site of over 20 schools & the Uganda Museum.
Names:
Kampala
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Uganda
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kampala
(special city) (
P
)
................
Kampala
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a British administrative center in late 1800s
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
since 1962
transportation center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Uganda
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000206]
Sources and Contributors:
Kampala..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 706
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1244
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 706
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1244
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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