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ID: 1088035
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1088035
Record Type:
administrative
Francistown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 11 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -21.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 027 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
The nation's second largest town & site of Dumela industrial complex; lies in farming area on country's main road & rail line; the Orapa diamond mine is 245 km west of Francistown.
Names:
Francistown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Botswana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Francistown
(town council) (
P
)
................
Francistown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Francistown..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 931
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 30 July 2014
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 931
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 30 July 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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