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ID: 1016870 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016870			Record Type: administrative

Kingston (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 00 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 18.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 076 48 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -76.8000 decimal degrees

Note: Old city was laid out in grid pattern; suffered from earthquakes & fire of 1907; landmarks include 17th-cen. Rockfort fortress & St. Thomas Church; by 1980s, most of old wharf replaced with hotels & offices; largest urban center in Commonwealth Caribbean.

Names:

Kingston (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

....

North and Central America (continent) (P)

........

Jamaica (nation) (P)

............

Surrey (county) (P)

................

Kingston (parish (political)) (P)

....................

Kingston (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded in 1692 after city of Port Royal destroyed by earthquake
national capital (C)	............	since 1872
city (C)
tourist center (C)
commercial center (C)
port (C)

Related geographic places:

capital of ....	Jamaica .......... (nation)
..................	(World, North and Central America) [7005556]

Sources and Contributors:

Kingston..........	[VP Preferred]
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 878
.................	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 March 2014
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 878
..................	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 March 2014
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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