Choum
Choum is a tiny railway stop in the Adrar Region of Northern Mauritania 5 km from the straight-line demarcated border with the Western Sahara that runs due west-east at this point before turning south-north 12 km to the east.Choum
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: commune and town in Adrar Region, Mauritania
- Address: شوم
- Categories: commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Adrar Region, Saharan Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
21.2987° or 21° 17' 55" northLongitude
-13.0672° or 13° 4' 2" westPopulation
5,000Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)Open Location Code
7CH87WXM+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2583960715OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2597435Wikidata ID
Q2660853Choum Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: شوم
- Belarusian: Шум
- Chinese: 舒姆
- Dutch: Choum
- Esperanto: Ŝum
- French: Choum
- French: Choûm
- German: Choum
- German: Schum
- Italian: Choum
- Japanese: チューム
- Lithuanian: Šumas (Mauritanija)
- Lithuanian: Šumas
- Malay: Choum
- Polish: Choum
- Polish: Szum
- Portuguese: Choum
- Romanian: Choum, Mauritania
- Romanian: Choum
- Russian: Choum
- Russian: Шум
- Spanish: Choum
- Ukrainian: Шум
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In the Area
Choum is situated close to the localities Gleib Lafraq and El Ghoueïrga.
- Grâret AriafaïlLocality
- El MdeïnâtLocality, 14 km northeast
- 'AgguiHamlet, 15 km south
- Guet er RouayaLocality, 16 km northeast
- Seguelan LakhdaLocality, 26 km west
- KrekraLocality, 31 km northeast
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