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ID: 1085693
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1085693
Record Type:
administrative
Songkhla (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 100 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 100.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on E coast of Malay peninsula at outlet of Luang lagoon, on a rail spur from Hat Yai; important coastal port & fishery center, commercially oriented to Malaysia & Singapore; taken by Japanese on December 8, 1941.
Names:
Songkhla
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Songkla
(
C
,
V
)
Singora
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Thailand
(nation) (
P
)
............
Songkhla
(province) (
P
)
................
Songkhla
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Singora..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184
Songkhla..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
600
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 12
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
186
Songkla..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1131
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
600
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 12
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184; 186
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1131
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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