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ID: 7009884
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009884
Record Type:
administrative
Lahti (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 60 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 60.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 025 40 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on lake Veijarvi; produces most of the nation's furniture; also has a glassworks, breweries & the nation's primary radio & television stations; known internationally for winter sports; noted for town hall (1912) by Eliel Saarinen.
Names:
Lahti
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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Finland
(nation) (
P
)
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Paijat-Hame Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Lahti
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1878 & incorporated in 1905
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
communications center (
C
)
sporting center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Lahti..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 104
..............
Nagel's: Finland (1971)
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 104
..................
Nagel's: Finland (1971)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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