Chinguetti
Chinguetti is a city in Saharan Mauritania. It contains a noted Islamic scholarly centre sometimes called the library in the desert and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.Photo: Mohamed Natti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chinguetti
- Type: City with 4,710 residents
- Description: human settlement in Mauritania
- Categories: human settlement, commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Adrar Region, Saharan Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.4635° or 20° 27' 49" northLongitude
-12.3659° or 12° 21' 57" westPopulation
4,710Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)IATA airport code
CGTOpen Location Code
7CG9FJ7M+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 330514595OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2380519Wikidata ID
Q312357Chinguetti Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Cengiṭ
- Arabic: شنقيط
- Arabic: شينغيتي
- Asturian: Chinguetti
- Avaric: Chinguetti
- Basque: Chinguetti
- Bulgarian: Шинкит
- Catalan: Chinguetti
- Catalan: Chinguiti
- Cebuano: Chingueṭṭi
- Chinese: 欣蓋提
- Danish: Chinguetti
- Dutch: Chinguetti
- Egyptian Arabic: شنقيط
- Finnish: Chinguetti
- French: Chinguetti
- French: Chinguitti
- Georgian: შინგეტი
- German: Changuit
- German: Chingueti
- German: Chinguetti
- German: Chinguetty
- German: Schinguete
- German: Singuyty
- Hebrew: שינגטי
- Icelandic: Chinguetti
- Italian: Chinguetti
- Italian: Cinguetti
- Japanese: シンゲッティ
- Kabyle: Cengiṭ
- Kazakh: Şïngettï qalası
- Kazakh: Шингетти қаласы
- Kazakh: شىينگەتتىي قالاسى
- Kotava: Chinguetti
- Latvian: Šingeti
- Lithuanian: Chingueti
- Lithuanian: Šingetis
- Malay: Chinguetti
- Nepali: चिङ्गुएति
- Norwegian: Chinguetti
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chinguetti
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chinguetti
- Persian: شنقیط
- Polish: Chinguetti
- Polish: Czinguetti
- Polish: Szinkit
- Polish: Szinkitti
- Portuguese: Chinguetti
- Romanian: Chinguetti
- Russian: Чингетти
- Russian: Шингетти
- Spanish: Chingueti
- Swedish: Chinguetti
- Turkish: Chinguetti
- Turkish: Şinkıt
- Ukrainian: Шингетті
- Ukrainian: Шинґетті
- Urdu: شنقیط
Other Places Named Chinguetti
Localities in the Area
- TendaouajâtHamlet
- Boû ‘AgâlHamlet
- Zer el GuebliHamlet
- AghlâouaHamlet
- El Baq’aHamlet
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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 Chinguetti. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.