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ID: 7000620
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000620
Record Type:
administrative
Kikwit (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 02 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.0333
decimal degrees
Long: 018 51 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.8500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Kwilu river, a branch of the Kasai river; early 20th-cen. colonial administrative center; is trade center for manioc, peanuts, corn, palm oil & kernels; also has food processing industries & an airport.
Names:
Kikwit
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kwilu
(province) (
P
)
................
Kikwit
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
European settlement began 1901
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
provincial capital (
H
)
............
of Kwilu province, 1963-1966
Sources and Contributors:
Kikwit..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 858
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 858
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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