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ID: 1093094
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093094
Record Type:
administrative
Germiston (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 15 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 028 10 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in the Witwatersrand E of Johannesburg; world's largest gold refinery, Rand Refinery Limited, recovers gold bullion from almost all of South Africa's mines; other industrial activity includes smelting, cotton-ginning & manufacturing.
Names:
Germiston
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
................
Germiston
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1886
city (
C
)
............
officially since 1950
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Germiston..........
[
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 221
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
72
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
440
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 221
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
72
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
440
Note:
English
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VP
]
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