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ID: 1082974
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082974
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Taiping (inhabited place)  Taiping (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 04 54 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 4.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 100 42 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 100.7000  decimal degrees

Note: Began as Chinese tin-mining settlement; today is a planned community with suburbs; Kinta Valley has usurped town's significance as a mining center; chief products include tin, paddy rice & rubber; State Museum has Malay weapons & archaeological specimens.

Names:
Taiping (preferred,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 Perak (state)  ............  Perak (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Taiping (inhabited place)  ................  Taiping (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Taiping..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 508-509
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 193
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 508-509
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 193
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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