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ID: 1084177
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084177
Record Type:
administrative
Davao (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 04 23 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.0730
decimal degrees
Long: 125 36 46 E
degrees minutes
Long: 125.6120
decimal degrees
Note:
Leading regional center for southeast Mindanao; developed as Japanese colony before World War II; one of world's largest cities in land area; taken by Japanese and made naval base 1941; bombed by US 1944; retaken by Allied forces 1945.
Names:
Davao
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Davao City
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pilipinas
(nation) (
P
)
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Davao
(special city) (
P
)
................
Davao
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1849
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Davao..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
53
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
317
Davao City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 904-905
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 904-905
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 April 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
53
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
317
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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