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ID: 1084794
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084794
Record Type:
administrative
Ad-Dammān (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 26.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 050 06 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 50.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W coast of Arabian Gulf; serves as residential town for the Ad-Dammām oil fields 13 km away; economy based on metallurgy & production of chemicals & fertilizers.
Names:
Ad-Dammān
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Dammām, Ad
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
As Suʻūdīyyah
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ash Sharqīyah
(province) (
P
)
................
Ad-Dammān
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
modern development began 1940s
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Ad Dammām
.......... (oil field)
..................................
(World, Asia, As Suʻūdīyyah, Ash Sharqīyah) [6001667]
Sources and Contributors:
Ad-Dammān..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Dammām, Ad..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
163
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
163
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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