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ID: 7007920
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007920
Record Type:
administrative
Washington (state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 120 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -120.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Inhabited by many groups of NW Coast Indians and North American Plateau Indians when European and American fur traders and Protestant missionaries arrived in 18th-19th cen.; N border was agreed upon by Britain (Canada) and the USA in 1846.
Names:
Washington
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
WA
(
C
,
V
,
USPS
)
Washington state
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Washington
(state) (
P
)
Place Types:
state (
preferred
,
B
)
............
since November 11, 1889
first level subdivision (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital is ....
Olympia
.......... (inhabited place)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States, Washington, Thurston county) [7013967]
Sources and Contributors:
WA..........
[
VP
]
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1258
Washington..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
29:455
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
plate 102
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS88000347
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Washington state..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NMWA database (2018-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XXIX, 455; 29:455
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
Plate 102; plate 102
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS88000347
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1258
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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