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ID: 1085750
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1085750
Record Type:
administrative
Dubayy (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 25.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 055 16 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 55.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on a small creek in the NE portion of the state; most of the population of this emirate lives here & in nearby areas; center for banking, insurance & import of Western goods; Port Rashid harbor opened in 1972.
Names:
Dubayy
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bibay
(
C
,
O
)
Dubai
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al Imārāt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Dubayy
(emirate) (
P
)
................
Dubayy
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settlement known from 1799
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bibay..........
[
VP
]
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Dubai..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 246
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
345
Dubayy..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
179
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
179
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 246
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
345
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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