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Places
Places term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
United Kingdom (39) 4 10
United States of America (7)

Use for: USA, United States

0 2
Vancouver (BC)

Use for: Vancouver, Canada

  • A city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the major urban centre of western Canada and the focus of one of the country’s most populous metropolitan regions. Vancouver lies between Burrard Inlet (an arm of the Strait of Georgia) to the north and the Fraser River delta to the south, opposite Vancouver Island. The city is just north of the U.S. state of Washington.
 0 0
Vaud (CHE)

Use for: Canton of Vaud (Switzerland), Vôd (Switzerland), Waadt (Switzerland)

0 0
VC 83 (Midlothian)

Use for: vice county 83, vice-county 83

  • Vice County 83 - Midlothian, as defined by Hewitt Cottrell Watson in his biological recording system
 1 0
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
 1 0
Vice Counties (UK) (2)

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.
 0 0
Virunga Mountains

Use for: Birunga Mountains, Mufumbiro Mountains

  • A volcanic range north of Lake Kivu in east-central Africa, extending about 50 miles (80 km) along the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. The range runs east-west, perpendicular to the rift valley in which lie Lakes Kivu and Edward.
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.
 0 0
Warwickshire 1 0