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ID: 7001533
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001533
Record Type:
administrative
Darjeeling (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 02 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 27.0333
decimal degrees
Long: 088 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 88.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Town acquired from Raja of Sikkim & developed as sanatorium for English soldiers 1835; name means "place of the thunderbolt"; noted for Mount Everest, zoo, museum of natural history, racecourse & hospitals; connected by air to Calcutta.
Names:
Dārjiling
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Darjeeling
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Darjiling
(
C
,
V
)
Dorje-Ling
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
West Bengal
(state) (
P
)
................
Darjeeling
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
municipality (
C
)
............
since 1850
administrative center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
University of N Bengal founded 1962
Sources and Contributors:
Darjeeling..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 887-888
Dārjiling..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 887-888
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
53
Darjiling..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 227
Dorje-Ling..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 887-888
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 227
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 887-888
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
53
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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