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Places
Places term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Zhemgang Dzong

Use for: Shamgong Dzong

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Zhemgang District (Bhtuan)

Use for: Shemgang District (Bhtuan)

  • one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) of Bhutan. Located in Southern Bhutan. It is made up of 8 village Gewog (blocks).
  • It is bordered by Sarpang, Trongsa, Bumthang, Mongar and Pemagatshel Districts, and borders Assam in India to the south.
  • The administrative center of the district is Zhemgang.
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Yunnan (1) 13 1
Whittinghame (Scotland) 1 0
West Lothian 0 0
Warwickshire 1 0
Wales

Use for: Cymru, Cambria

  • constituent unit of the United Kingdom that forms a westward extension of the island of Great Britain. The capital and main commercial and financial centre is Cardiff.
  • In 1536 Wales was united with England to form England and Wales. In 1707 Scotland was united with England and Wales to form Great Britain. Subsequent to a referendum held in 1998, devolution into an autonomous entity within the United Kingdom became effective 1 July 1999 with the state opening of the Welsh National Assembly in Cardiff by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Virunga Mountain Chain 1 0
Vice Counties (UK)

Use for: VC, Vice-county, vice county, vice-counties, Watsonian vice-county

  • a geographical division of the British Isles. It is also called biological vice-county as it is used for purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering, or sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica, published in 1852.
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VC81 (Berwickshire)

Use for: vice county 81, vice-county 81

  • Vice County 81 - Berwickshire, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system
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