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ID: 1082714
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1082714
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Butterworth (inhabited place)  Butterworth (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 5.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 100 22 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 100.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Railhead & transshipment point for exports from the peninsula; connected by ferry to Pulau Pinang; produces rubber, tin, steel & petroleum; named after 19th-cen. governor of Malacca & Singapore, William T Butterworth.

Names:
Butterworth (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pulau Pinang (state)  ............  Pulau Pinang (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Butterworth (inhabited place)  ................  Butterworth (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Butterworth..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 688
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 36
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 688
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 36
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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