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ID: 7006257
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006257
Record Type:
administrative
Rio Grande do Norte (state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 036 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -36.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Contains salt-rich marshes that have supported local economy; terrain ranges from semiarid plains to forests; settled by Portuguese in 16th cen.; French pirates also occupied land until defeat in 1598; site of large cotton plantations & mines.
Names:
Rio Grande do Norte
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
(
C
,
V
)
Rio Grande do Norte, Estado do
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Rio Grande do Norte
(state) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nordeste
(region (geographic)) (
P
)
................
Rio Grande do Norte
(state) (
P
)
Place Types:
state (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since 1889
first level subdivision (
C
)
agricultural land (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Estado do Rio Grande do Norte..........
[
VP
]
..................................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
Rio Grande do Norte..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 83
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
Rio Grande do Norte, Estado do..........
[
VP
]
.....................................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 83
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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