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ID: 7002461
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002461
Record Type:
administrative
Quetta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 11 56 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.1990
decimal degrees
Long: 067 00 35 E
degrees minutes
Long: 67.0097
decimal degrees
Note:
On Silk Road trade route between India and Afghanistan; controls Bolan and Khojak Passes; important regional center; nearly destroyed by earthquake in 1935 but rebuilt; was a British headquarters.
Names:
Quetta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Kotah
(
C
,
V
)
Kwatah
(
C
,
V
)
Shāl
(
C
,
V
)
Shālkot
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pakistan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Balochistān
(province) (
P
)
................
Quetta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
annex (
H
)
............
British, 1876-ca. 1947
regional capital (
C
)
Related geographic places:
located on ....
Silk Road
.......... (road)
..................
(World) [7031416]
Sources and Contributors:
Kotah..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Kwatah..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Quetta..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
530
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
996
Shāl..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Shālkot..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
530
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2772048
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
996
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Tucker, Silk Road (2015)
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