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ID: 7009883
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009883
Record Type:
administrative
Kuopio (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 62 54 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 62.9000
decimal degrees
Long: 027 40 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Original village grew when King Gustav III had new city plans drawn in 1776; noted as center for the Finnish Orthodox Church; industry is based on wood products, flour processing & liqueur distillation.
Names:
Kuopio
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Finland
(nation) (
P
)
............
North Savo Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Kuopio
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1653, expanded in 1776 & chartered in 1782
city (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
provincial capital (
H
)
............
of the former province of Kuopio until 1998
Sources and Contributors:
Kuopio..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 38
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
106
.................
USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998)
2
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 38
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
106
..................
USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998)
2
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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