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ID: 1090249
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090249
Record Type:
administrative
Kankan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 009 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -9.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as a caravan center by Soninke merchants; nation's second largest town; chief trading center of Malinke & Diula people; has light manufacturing & traditional craft industries in gold, ivory & wood; has several educational institutions.
Names:
Kankan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guinée
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kankan
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Kankan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 18th cen.
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kankan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 720
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
96
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
586
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 720
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
96
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
586
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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