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ID: 1094539
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094539
Record Type:
administrative
Mbabane (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 20 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 031 08 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest town of Swaziland; founded when British assumed control of country & established administrative headquarters; Mozambican railway link near town established 1964 to export iron ore from nearby mine.
Names:
Mbabane
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Swaziland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hhohho
(national district) (
P
)
................
Mbabane
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1902
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
administrative capital, while Lobamba is royal & legislative capital
district capital (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
judicial center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Swaziland
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [7001725]
..................
administrative capital
Sources and Contributors:
Mbabane..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 984
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
124
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1170
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 984
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
124
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1170
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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