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ID: 1099657
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1099657
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Apia (inhabited place)  Apia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 48 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -13.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 171 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -171.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Seaport connected by steamship service with Australia, New Zealand & United States; has rapidly expanding residential areas, churches & trading companies along the waterfront; suffered a hurricane in 1889 that destroyed US & German naval stations.

Names:
Apia (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Samoa (nation)  ........  Samoa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of lost & found/Samoa (miscellaneous)  ............  lost & found/Samoa (miscellaneous) (P)
Hierarchy of Apia (inhabited place)  ................  Apia (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Samoa (nation)  ........  Samoa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Upolu (island)  ............  Upolu (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Apia (inhabited place)  ................  Apia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
national capital (C)
seaport (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Samoa .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Oceania) [1000239]

Sources and Contributors:
Apia..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 30
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 14
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 61, 1061
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 30
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 14
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 61, 1061
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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