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ID: 1084583
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084583
Record Type:
administrative
Quezon City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 39 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.6500
decimal degrees
Long: 121 02 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 121.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Grew after World War II with construction of government buildings on Capitol Site; has large resettlement housing projects for low-income government workers; has University of the Philippines & Ateneo de Manila University.
Names:
Quezon City
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Philippines
(nation) (
P
)
............
Quezon
(special city) (
P
)
................
Quezon City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
replacing Manila, 1948-1976
Sources and Contributors:
Quezon City..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 857
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
997
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 857
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
997
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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