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ID: 7002575
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002575
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chittagong (inhabited place)  Chittagong (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 22 20 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 22.3333  decimal degrees
Long: 091 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 91.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Principal port of Bangladesh; located in one of the areas of world's heaviest annual rainfall; on early Portuguese trade route; captured by Nawab of Bengal 1666; to Britain 1760; port damaged in 1971 Indo-Pakistani war; site of oil refinery, engineering.

Names:
Chittagong (preferred,C,V)
Tschittagong (C,V)
Islamabad (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Bangladesh (nation)  ........  Bangladesh (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chittagong (national division)  ............  Chittagong (national division) (P)
Hierarchy of Chittagong (inhabited place)  ................  Chittagong (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  located along Portugese marine route
city (C)
regional capital (C)  ............  of Chittagong division
port (C)
industrial center (C)
university center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Chittagong..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 551
.......................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 262
Islamabad..........  [BHA]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Tschittagong..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-179
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 551
..................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-179
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 262
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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