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ID: 1082804
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082804
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kota Kinabalu (inhabited place)  Kota Kinabalu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 59 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 5.9833  decimal degrees
Long: 116 04 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 116.0667  decimal degrees

Note: Destroyed by bombing in WW II & later rebuilt; originally named after Sir Charles Jessel, a director of British North Borneo Company; mainly populated by Chinese; light industries include flour milling, woodworking & manufacture of furniture & soap.

Names:
Kota Kinabalu (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1968
Jesselton (H,V)  ............ 1899-1968

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established 1899
town (C)
state capital (C)
capital (H)  ............  of British North Borneo, 1946

Sources and Contributors:
Jesselton..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972-973
Kota Kinabalu..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972-973
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 104
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 972-973
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 104
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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