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ID: 1000772
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1000772
Record Type:
administrative
Sud-Ouest (region (administrative division))
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 003 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Inhabited by the Lobi, who came to the area from E of the Volta Noire river; they were one of the last groups to submit to French control in the 1890s; area has fertile soil cultivated in sorghum, yams, cotton, rice & sugarcane.
Names:
Sud-Ouest
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Région du Sud-Ouest
(
C
,
V
)
Sud-Ouest region
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Burkina Faso
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sud-Ouest
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
Place Types:
region (administrative division) (
preferred
,
C
)
first level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Région du Sud-Ouest..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 26 September 2014
Sud-Ouest..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 349
....................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-171
Sud-Ouest region..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 349
..................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 26 September 2014
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-171
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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