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ID: 7016573
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016573
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tanga (inhabited place)  Tanga (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 03 57 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -5.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 039 06 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 39.1000  decimal degrees

Note: The nation's third largest city; developed greatly with port modernization & railroads under German colonial rule in the 1890s; taken by British in 1916 during World War I; given a direct rail connection after World War I to Dar es Salaam & the interior.

Names:
Tanga (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanzania (nation)  ........  Tanzania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanga (region (administrative division))  ............  Tanga (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanga (inhabited place)  ................  Tanga (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by traders 14th cen., later was an Arab-Swahili settlement
city (C)
regional capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tanga..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912-913
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 541
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 194
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1186
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912-913
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 541
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 6 October 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 194
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1186
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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