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ID: 7005503
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005503
Record Type:
administrative
Port-au-Prince (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 32 21 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.5390
decimal degrees
Long: 072 20 06 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.3350
decimal degrees
Note:
Important commercial port located on the Gulf of Gonave; founded by French; became capital of French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1770; has suffered severe damage from earthquakes, fires & civil strife; site of old French quay of 1780.
Names:
Port-au-Prince
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ville de Port-au-Prince
(
C
,
V
)
Pòtoprens
(
C
,
V
)
Puerto Príncipe
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Haiti
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ouest
(department) (
P
)
................
Port-au-Prince
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1749
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Haiti
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005502]
Sources and Contributors:
Port-au-Prince..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 749
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 14 March 2014
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
156
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Pòtoprens..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 1 July 2016
Puerto Príncipe..........
[
VP
]
.............................
AATA database (1995-)
Ville de Port-au-Prince..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 14 March 2014
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 749
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 14 March 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
156
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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