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ID: 1092949
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092949
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Carletonville (inhabited place)  Carletonville (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 22 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -26.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 027 25 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.4167  decimal degrees

Note: W of Johannesburg; chief center of the Far West Witwatersrand goldfields & dolomite mines; named after local mine director Guy Carleton Jones; maintains some light industrial activity; surroundings of the town have been destroyed by sinkholes.

Names:
Carletonville (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 North West (province)  ............  North West (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Carletonville (inhabited place)  ................  Carletonville (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established between 1937-1957
town (C)  ............  officially designated 1959

Sources and Contributors:
Carletonville..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 869
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 39
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 869
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 39
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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