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ID: 7000585
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000585
Record Type:
administrative
Banjul (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 27 10 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.4531
decimal degrees
Long: 016 34 37 W
degrees minutes
Long: -16.5775
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded in effort to suppress slave trade & serve as trade outlet by British; serves as nation's educational center; population is mostly Wolof; exports peanuts & palm kernels; noted for handicrafts.
Names:
Banjul
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1973
Banjui
(
C
,
V
)
Bathurst
(
H
,
V
)
............
named for 3rd Earl Bathurst, 1816
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
The Gambia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Banjul
(special city) (
P
)
................
Banjul
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by British, 1816
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
since 1965
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of British Protectorate, 1816-1947
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
The Gambia
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000165]
Sources and Contributors:
Banjui..........
[
VP
]
.................
Gambia Tourist Office, Gambia (1990)
Banjul..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 870
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
21
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
123
Bathurst..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 870
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 870
..................
Gambia Tourist Office, Gambia (1990)
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 February 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
21
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
123
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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