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ID: 7003700
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003700
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Surabaya (inhabited place)  Surabaya (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 07 14 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -7.2333  decimal degrees
Long: 112 45 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 112.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Nation's second largest city after Jakarta; main trade center of E Jawa since 1300s; under Japanese occupation in WW II; Surabaya's port located to the N at Tanjungperak; manufacturing includes textiles, glass, chemicals, beer, cigarettes & shoes.

Names:
Surabaya (preferred,C,V)
Surabaja (C,V)
Soerabaja (C,O)
Soerabaia (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Indonesia (nation)  ........  Indonesia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Jawa Timur (province)  ............  Jawa Timur (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Surabaya (inhabited place)  ................  Surabaya (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
trade center (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  Airlangga University founded 1954

Sources and Contributors:
Soerabaia..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 354
Soerabaja..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 405
Surabaja..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 541
Surabaya..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 405
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 191
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 405
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 191
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 354
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 541
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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