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ID: 7000468
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000468
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bamako (inhabited place)  Bamako (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 12.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 007 59 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -7.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Occupied by Captain Joseph-Simon Gallieni for France in 1880; situated on both sides of the Niger River; city is site of a large marketplace, botanical & zoological gardens, four colleges & several research institutes; is main industrial center of Mali.

Names:
Bamako (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mali (nation)  ........  Mali (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Bamako (national district)  ............  Bamako (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Bamako (inhabited place)  ................  Bamako (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by French in 19th cen., on site of existing village
city (C)
national capital (C)
capital (H)  ............  of French Sudan, 1908

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Mali .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Africa) [1000175]

Sources and Contributors:
Bamako..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 852
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 21
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 852
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 21
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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