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ID: 1074314
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1074314
Record Type:
administrative
Tsuen Wan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 22.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 114 06 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 114.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
City had only 3,000 inhabitants prior to British acquisition in 1898; industrial development progressed in 1930s, continued with arrival of Shanghai industrialists in late 1940s.
Names:
Tsuen Wan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Quanwan
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Hong Kong
(semi-independent political entity) (
P
)
............
Tsuen Wan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Hong Kong
(semi-independent political entity) (
P
)
............
Tsuen Wan District
(district) (
P,
U
)
................
Tsuen Wan
(inhabited place)
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Hong Kong
(semi-independent political entity) (
P
)
............
New Territories
(general region) (
P
)
................
Tsuen Wan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
small town prior to British acquisition, developed during 1930s
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Quanwan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-179
Tsuen Wan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
202
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-179
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
202
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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