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Palembang (inhabited place) |
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Lat: 02 59 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -2.9833 decimal degrees |
Long: 104 45 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 104.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Largest city on Sumatera; under Japanese occupation during WW II; there are large oil refineries in suburbs of Sungaigerong & Pladju; rubber, coffee, timber, coal, tea, spices, resin, rattan, pepper & cinchona are exported. |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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city (C) |
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provincial capital (C) |
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port (C) |
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educational center (C) |
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university founded 1960 |
capital (H) |
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of Hindu Śrivijaya kingdom, 7th-12th cen.; of autonomous South Sumatra state, 1948-1950 |
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