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ID: 1090145
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090145
Record Type:
administrative
Koforidua (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 05 38 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.0941
decimal degrees
Long: 000 15 33 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.2590
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in country's oldest cocoa-producing area; as cocoa production moved westward, town has become a commercial & administrative center with little industry; granite is quarried nearby.
Names:
Koforidua
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ghana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Eastern
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Koforidua
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
since 1923
commercial center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Koforidua..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 930
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
103
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 930
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 5 January 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
103
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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