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ID: 7000979
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000979
Record Type:
administrative
Nakhon Ratchasima (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 102 06 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 102.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Mun river, on the edge of Thailand's NE plateau; was an ancient walled city, formerly under rule of Cambodia; site of many temples.
Names:
Nakhon Ratchasima
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Korat
(
C
,
V
)
Khorat
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Prathet Thai
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nakhon Ratchasima
(province) (
P
)
................
Nakhon Ratchasima
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient walled city
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Khorat..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 635
Korat..........
[
VP
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
104
Nakhon Ratchasima..........
[
VP Preferred
]
................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
435
................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 491
................................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
135
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
435
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 635
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 491
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
104; 135
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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