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ID: 7000812
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000812
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Soweto (inhabited place)  Soweto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 17 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -26.2833  decimal degrees
Long: 027 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Adjoins Johannesburg on the SW; nation's largest black urban complex; population derived from various ethnic groups; scene of the 1976 Soweto Rebellion which started as a political protest against the use of the Afrikaans language in Soweto high schools.

Names:
Soweto (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gauteng (province)  ............  Gauteng (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Soweto (inhabited place)  ................  Soweto (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
township (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Soweto..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 58-59
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 187
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 58-59
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 187
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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