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ID: 1091068
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091068
Record Type:
administrative
Limbe (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 50 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -15.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 035 03 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Grew up around the headquarters of the Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) Railways; joined with nearby Blantyre in 1956 to form a united municipality; is headquarters of the nation's tobacco auctions.
Names:
Limbe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malaŵi
(nation) (
P
)
............
Blantyre
(national district) (
P
)
................
Limbe
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1909
town (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Limbe..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 275
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
111
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 275
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
111
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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