Atar
Atar is a town of 25,000 people in Saharan Mauritania. It is a great base for exploring the Adrar region, and tends to be slightly cheaper overall than Chinguetti. The Atar Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in the country, dates from 1674. Atar Mosque…Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Atar
- Type: City with 32,300 residents
- Description: city in Mauritania
- Address: أطار
- Categories: commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Adrar Region, Saharan Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.5182° or 20° 31' 6" northLongitude
-13.0544° or 13° 3' 16" westPopulation
32,300Elevation
224 metres (735 feet)IATA airport code
ATRUnited Nations Location Code
MR ATROpen Location Code
7CG8GW9W+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 330511654OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2381334Wikidata ID
Q735645Atar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Aṭar
- Arabic: أطار
- Arabic: اطار
- Arabic: الأطار
- Asturian: Atar
- Azerbaijani: Atar
- Basque: Atar
- Belarusian: Атар
- Bengali: আতার
- Catalan: Atar
- Chinese: 阿塔尔
- Chinese: 阿塔爾
- Danish: Atar
- Dutch: Atar
- Egyptian Arabic: اطار
- English: Atar, Mauritania
- Esperanto: Atar
- Finnish: Atar
- French: Atar
- German: Atar
- German: Aṭār
- Greek: Ατάρ
- Gujarati: એટાર
- Hebrew: אטאר
- Hindi: अटर
- Hungarian: Atar
- Icelandic: Atar
- Indonesian: Atar
- Italian: Atar
- Japanese: アタール
- Kabyle: Aṭar
- Kannada: ಅಟಾರ್
- Korean: 아타르
- Latvian: Atāra
- Lithuanian: Ataras
- Malay: Atar, Mauritania
- Malay: Atar
- Marathi: अतार
- Northern Frisian: Atar
- Norwegian: Atar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Atar
- Persian: اطار
- Polish: Atar
- Portuguese: Atar
- Romanian: Atar, Mauritania
- Romanian: Atar
- Russian: Атар
- Serbo-Croatian: Atar, Mauritanija
- Sinhala: , අටාර්
- Spanish: Atar
- Swedish: Atar, Mauretanien
- Swedish: Atar
- Tamil: அடார்
- Telugu: అత్తార్
- Thai: อทาร์
- Turkish: Atar, Moritanya
- Turkish: Atar
- Ukrainian: Атар
- Urdu: اطار، موریتانیہ
- Vietnamese: Atar
- Atâr
- Aţār
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Atar is situated close to the hamlets Mnâçîr and El Beououâl.
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Atar. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.