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ID: 1082802
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082802
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kota Baharu (inhabited place)  Kota Baharu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 06 07 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 6.1167  decimal degrees
Long: 102 15 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 102.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Located in a fecund agricultural region; unapproachable from the South China Sea due to sandbars; uses port facilities to the N at Tumpat & the airport at Peng Chepa; seized by Japanese on December 10, 1941 in their Singapore campaign during WW II.

Names:
Kota Baharu (preferred,C,V)
Kota Bahru (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kelantan (state)  ............  Kelantan (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Kota Baharu (inhabited place)  ................  Kota Baharu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
state capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Kota Baharu..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 104
Kota Bahru..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 104
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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