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ID: 1090197
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090197
Record Type:
administrative
Tema (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 000 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest man-made harbor in Africa; Tema was opened due to the inability of Takoradi port to handle Ghana's increased international trade; expanded with establishment of various industrial plants & factories in the 1960s.
Names:
Tema
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ghana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Greater Accra
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Tema
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
chosen in 1951 to replace Takoradi as Ghana's port for international trade
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
............
opened 1962
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Tema..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 620
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
196
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1194
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 620
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
196
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1194
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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