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ID: 7000620
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000620

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kikwit (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Democratic Republic of the Congo (nation)  ........  Democratic Republic of the Congo (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kwilu (province)  ............  Kwilu (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Kikwit (inhabited place)  ................  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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