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ID: 7012783
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012783
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wolfsburg (inhabited place)  Wolfsburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 26 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.4333  decimal degrees
Long: 010 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located northeast of Braunschweig; medieval center of Hesslingen was located near here, but modern industrial community was founded on this site in 20th cen.; city's economy is dominated by Volkswagen automobile plant.

Names:
Wolfsburg (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lower Saxony (state)  ............  Lower Saxony (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Wolfsburg (inhabited place)  ................  Wolfsburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1938
city (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Wolfsburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 730
....................  Knaurs: Deutschland (1985)
....................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 213
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1350
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 730
..................  Knaurs: Deutschland (1985)
..................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1890440
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 213
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1350
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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