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ID: 1082419
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082419
Record Type:
administrative
Kuwait City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 29.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 048 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 48.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Formerly a mud-walled city dependent upon fishing, pearling and trade with east Africa and the Indian subcontinent; grew rapidly as the nation's oil industry developed after the Second World War; mud wall removed 1957.
Names:
Al Kuwayt
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kuwait City
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Al-Kuwayt
(
C
,
V
)
Kuwait
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kuwait
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al ‘Āşimah
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Kuwait City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded beginning of 18th cen.
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
Kuwait University opened 1966
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Kuwait
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [1000124]
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Kuwayt..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 51
Al Kuwayt..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
Kuwait..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 51
Kuwait City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
637
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
637
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 51
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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