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ID: 7010167
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010167
Record Type:
administrative
Qaraghandy (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 073 07 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 73.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
Nation's second largest city; economy dominated by coal mining and manufacture of coal-mining machinery; also supports iron and steel works, cement plants and light industry; site of a museum, two theaters and a botanical garden.
Names:
Qaraghandy
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Karaganda
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Qazaqstan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Qaraghandy
(province) (
P
)
................
Qaraghandy
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first settled 1856
city (
C
)
............
status given 1934
regional capital (
C
)
............
since 1936
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Karaganda..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 736
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
96
Qaraghandy..........
[
VP
]
.......................
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 02/10/99
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 02/10/99
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 736
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
96
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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