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ID: 7001737
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001737
Record Type:
administrative
Harare (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 50 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -17.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 031 03 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest city in Zimbabwe; site of Anglican & Roman Catholic cathedrals, Dutch Reformed Church, Queen Victoria Memorial Library & Museum; has gold mines, steel mills & textile plants.
Names:
Harare
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1980
Salisbury
(
H
,
V
)
............
after Lord Salisbury, 1890
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Zimbabwe
(nation) (
P
)
............
Harare Province
(province) (
P
)
................
Harare
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1890
city (
C
)
............
chartered 1935
national capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of S Rhodesia & Rhodesia
municipality (
H
)
............
created 1897
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Zimbabwe
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000185]
Sources and Contributors:
Harare..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 693-4
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
80
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1058
Salisbury..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
259
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
259
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 693-4
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
80
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1058
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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