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ID: 1092156
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092156
Record Type:
administrative
Makurdi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 44 27 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.7411
decimal degrees
Long: 008 30 43 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.5121
decimal degrees
Note:
Town is a major transit point for shipping goods to Lokoja & Niger Delta; has many limestone & marble deposits; trades in sorghum, yams, millet, rice, sesame oil, peanuts, soybeans & cotton; site of a boatyard & hydroelectric power plant.
Names:
Makurdi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Benue
(state) (
P
)
................
Makurdi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1927
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1976
transportation center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Makurdi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 720
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
119
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 720
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 15 December 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
119
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
Note:
English
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VP
]
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