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![Hierarchy of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (inhabited place)](/global/images/global_hierarchy.gif) |
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 50 55 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.9167 decimal degrees |
Long: 142 12 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 142.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on W coast of Sachalin Island; writer Anton Chekhov visited in 1890 to gather material for his sociological study The Island of Sakhalin. |
Names: |
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Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (preferred,C,V,O)
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Aleksandrovsk Sakhalinskiy (C,V)
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Aleksandrovsk-Sachalinskij (C,V)
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Aleksandrovsk (C,U)
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Aleksandrovski (C,U)
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Alexandrovsk (C,U)
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Александровск-Сахалинский (C,U,Russian-P)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded as a penal colony in 1881 |
city (C) |
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since 1926 |
capital (H) |
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of an oblast from 1932-1947 |
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