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This class comprises concepts denoted by terms from thesauri and controlled vocabularies used to identify more precisely an instance of the class C8 Geographical Place without needing to create sub-classes of that class. Instances of C8 Geographical Place can only be linked to a unique instance of C51 Geographical Place Kind. Therefore, instances of C51 Geographical Place Kind, while in essence similar to instances of E55 Geographical Place Type, have a different function of further specifying the intension of an instance of C8 Geographical Place, whereas instances of E55 Type can be used to epistemically classify instances of C8 Geographical Place.

Instances of C51 Geographical Place Kind represent concepts in contrast to instances of E41 Appellation which are used to name instances of classes.

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