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ID: 7017971
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017971
Record Type:
administrative
Congo (general region)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -7.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 020 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 20.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
The general region in central Africa on both sides of the Congo river, today comprising the nations of Congo, Zaire (the Democratic Republic of Congo), and adjacent regions.
Names:
Congo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Kongo
(
C
,
V
,
English
)
קונגו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo
(general region) (
P
)
Place Types:
general region (
preferred
,
C
)
territory (
H
)
............
French Equatorial Africa, 1910-1946; of France, 1946-1958
region (geographic) (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
קונגו..........
[
IMJ
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Congo..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 91
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
285
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
285
Kongo..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 03/17/99
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 03/17/99
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 91
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
285
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
285
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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