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ID: 1082664
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082664
Record Type:
administrative
Alor Setar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 07 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.1167
decimal degrees
Long: 100 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 100.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Home of sultan of Kedah; chief distribution center for paddy rice cultivated on the N Kedah plain; connected by road & rail N to Thailand & S to Pinang state; inaccessible to Andaman Sea to the W due to swamp forest; airport S at Kepala Batas.
Names:
Alor Setar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Alor Star
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malaysia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kedah
(state) (
P
)
................
Alor Setar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Alor Setar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 291
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-5
Alor Star..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 291
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 291
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-5
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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