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ID: 1090191
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090191
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tamale (inhabited place)  Tamale (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 09 26 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 9.4333  decimal degrees
Long: 000 49 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Serves as region's educational center; Vernacular Literature Bureau administers mass literacy campaigns; has cotton milling & shea-nut industries; Tamale Face-Lift program established here in 1974 to foster commercial growth of Upper & Northern regions.

Names:
Tamale (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ghana (nation)  ........  Ghana (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Northern (region (administrative division))  ............  Northern (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Tamale (inhabited place)  ................  Tamale (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
regional capital (C)
college center (C)
agricultural center (C)
trade center (C)
transportation center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tamale..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 526
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 193
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 526
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 193
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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