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ID: 7016762
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016762
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Perlis (state)  Perlis (state)

Coordinates:
Lat: 06 30 07 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 6.5029  decimal degrees
Long: 100 14 42 E  degrees minutes   Long: 100.2460  decimal degrees

Note: Smallest and most northern state of Malaysia; part of Kedah until 1821; one of Unified Malay States under protection of Great Britain from 1909; annexed temporarily by Thailand 1943; British protectorate 1945; joined independent Federation of Malaya 1957.

Names:
Perlis (preferred,C,V)
Negeri Perlis (C,V,O)
State of Perlis (C,V)
MY08 (C,U,FIPS)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Perlis (state)  ............  Perlis (state) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Peninsular Malaysia (region (geographic))  ............  Peninsular Malaysia (region (geographic)) (P)
Hierarchy of Perlis (state)  ................  Perlis (state) (P)

Place Types:
state (preferred, C)  ............  since 1963
first level subdivision (C)
sultanate (H)  ............  given status by Thailand 1841

Sources and Contributors:
MY08..........  [VP]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Negeri Perlis..........  [VP]
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 27 October 2014
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2405164
Perlis..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 297
.................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 1733040
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 27 October 2014
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2405164
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 942
State of Perlis..........  [VP]
.............................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 1733040
.............................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 27 October 2014
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2405164
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 297
..................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 1733040
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 27 October 2014
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2405164
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 942
..................  Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlis
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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