Nouakchott
Nouakchott is the capital of Mauritania and its largest city, with almost 1.2 million residents in 2019. The city is the hub of the Mauritanian economy and is home to a deepwater port and Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, one of the country's two international airports.Photo: Laminesall96, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
G5 Sahel
G5 Sahel or G5S is an institutional framework for coordination of regional cooperation in development policies and security matters in west Africa.National Museum of Mauritania
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Museum of Mauritania, also known as the National Museum of Nouakchott, is a national museum in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
National Library of Mauritania
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de Mauritanie is located in Nouakchott, Mauritania in the building of the National Museum of Mauritania.
Localities in the Area
Arafat
Arafat is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania.Sebkha
Sebkha is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania.Ksar
Ksar, Mauritania is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania.Nouakchott
- Type: City with 958,000 residents
- Description: capital of Mauritania
- Categories: big city, commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Coastal Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.0792° or 18° 4' 45" northLongitude
-15.978° or 15° 58' 41" westPopulation
958,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
NKCUnited Nations Location Code
MR NKCOpen Location Code
7CC632HC+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 249166495OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2377450Wikidata ID
Q3688Nouakchott Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Nwaqcuṭ
- Achinese: Nouakchott
- Adyghe: Нуакшот
- Afrikaans: Nouakchott
- Albanian: Nouakchott
- Albanian: Nuakçot
- Amharic: ኑዋክሾት
- Arabic: Nouakchott
- Arabic: انواكشوط
- Arabic: عاصمة موريتانيا
- Arabic: نواقشط
- Arabic: نواقشوط
- Arabic: نواكشط
- Arabic: نواكشوط
- Arabic: نوق الشط
- Aragonese: Nouakchott
- Armenian: Նուակշոտ
- Asturian: Nouakchott
- Asturian: Nuakxot
- Avaric: Nouakchott
- Azerbaijani: Nuakşot
- Balinese: Nouakchott
- Bashkir: Нуакшот
- Basque: Nuakchot
- Basque: Nuakxot
- Belarusian: Нуакшот
- Bengali: নউকচোট
- Bengali: নুওয়াকশুত
- Bosnian: Nouakchott
- Breton: Nouakchott
- Bulgarian: Нуакшот
- Catalan: Nouakchott
- Cebuano: District de Nouakchott
- Cebuano: Nouakchott (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Nouakchott
- Central Kurdish: نواکشۆت
- Central Kurdish: نۆئاکشۆت
- Chechen: Нуакшот
- Chinese: Nouakchott
- Chinese: 努瓦克肖特
- Chinese: 或索
- Chinese: 諾克少
- Cornish: Nouakchott
- Croatian: Nouakchott
- Czech: Nawakšút
- Czech: Nawākšūṭ
- Czech: Nouakchott
- Czech: Nuakšott
- Danish: Nouakchott
- Dutch: Nouakchott
- Egyptian Arabic: نواكشوط
- English: Capital of Mauritania
- English: Nawakshut
- English: Nawākshūṭ
- English: Nouakchot
- English: Nouakchott, Mauritania
- English: Noukchott
- English: Nuwakshut
- English: Nuwākshūṭ
- Esperanto: Nuakŝoto
- Estonian: Nouakchott
- Fiji Hindi: Nouakchott
- Finnish: Nouakchott
- French: Nouakchott
- Fulah: Nouakchott
- Galician: Nouakchott
- Georgian: ნუაქშოტი
- German: Nouakchott
- Greek: Νουακσότ
- Greek: Νουαξότ
- Guarani: Nuakechóte
- Gujarati: નયૂવાક્ચોટ
- Haitian: Nouakchot
- Hakka Chinese: Nouakchott
- Hausa: Nouakchott
- Hebrew: נואקשוט
- Hindi: नवाक्शूत
- Hindi: नुआकशॉट
- Hindi: नुआकशोत
- Hungarian: Nouakchott
- Icelandic: Núaksjott
- Ido: Nouakchott
- Inari Sami: Nouakchott
- Indonesian: Nouakchott
- Interlingua: Nouakchott
- Interlingue: Nouakchott
- Irish: Nouakchott
- Irish: Nuacsat
- Italian: Nouakchott
- Japanese: ヌアクショット
- Javanese: Nouakchott
- Kabiyè: Nuwakicɔɔtɩ
- Kabyle: Nwaqcuṭ
- Kannada: ನೌಕ್ಚೋಟ್
- Kazakh: Нуакшот
- Kazakh: Нуакшот қаласы
- Kirghiz: Нуакшот
- Kongo: Nouakchott
- Korean: 누악쇼뜨
- Korean: 누악쇼트
- Kotava: Nouakchott
- Kurdish: Nuakşot
- Kurdish: Nûakşot
- Latin: Nouakchott
- Latvian: Nuakšota
- Ligurian: Nouakchott
- Lithuanian: Nuakšotas
- Livvi: Nuakšot
- Lombard: Nouakchott
- Luxembourgish: Nouakchott
- Macedo-Romanian: Nouakchott
- Macedonian: Нуакшот
- Malay: Nouakchott
- Malayalam: നൌവാക്ക്ച്ചോട്ട്
- Marathi: नवाकसुत
- Mazanderani: نواکشوط
- Min Dong Chinese: Nouakchott
- Min Nan Chinese: Nouakchott
- Mingrelian: ნუაქშოტი
- Moksha: Нуакшот
- Mongolian: Нуакшот
- Moroccan Arabic: نواكشوط
- N'Ko: ߣߎߥߊߞߑߛ߭ߐߕ
- Navajo: Níyoltah
- Northern Frisian: Nouakchott
- Norwegian: Nouakchott
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nouakchott
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nouakchott
- Novial: Nouakchot
- Occitan (post 1500): Nouakchott
- Occitan (post 1500): Nuakshut
- Ossetian: Нуакшот
- Panjabi: ਨੁਆਕਚੋਤ
- Papiamento: Nouakchott
- Persian: نوآکشوت
- Persian: نواکشوت
- Piemontese: Nouakchott
- Polish: Nawakszut
- Portuguese: Nouakchott
- Portuguese: Nuaquexote
- Pushto: نواکشوت
- Romanian: Nouakchott
- Russian: Нуакшот
- Santali: ᱱᱚᱣᱟᱠᱛᱥᱩᱛ
- Sardinian: Nouakchott
- Scots: Nouakchott
- Scottish Gaelic: Nouakchott
- Serbian: Нуакшот
- Serbo-Croatian: Nouakchott
- Shona: Nouakchott
- Silesian: Nawakszut
- Sinhala: නොවැක්චොට්
- Slovak: Nouakchott
- Slovenian: Nouakchott
- Somali: Nawakshot
- Spanish: Nuakchot
- Swahili: Nouakchott
- Swedish: Nouakchott
- Tagalog: Nouakchott
- Tagalog: Nuakchot
- Tajik: Нуакшот
- Tamil: நவாக்சோட்
- Tamil: நுவாக்சூத்
- Tamil: நுவாக்ஷாட்
- Tamil: நோவக்க்கோட்
- Telugu: నౌవాషోట్
- Thai: นูอากช็อต
- Thai: นูแอกชอต
- Tibetan: ནའུ་ཀ་ཅོ་ཊི།
- Turkish: Nuakşot
- Turkmen: Nuakşot
- Udmurt: Нуакшот
- Ukrainian: Нуакшот
- Urdu: نواکشوط
- Uzbek: Nuakshot
- Venetian: Nouakchott
- Veps: Nuakšot
- Vietnamese: Nouakchott
- Volapük: Nävakjut
- Waray (Philippines): Nouakchott
- Welsh: Nouakchott
- Western Frisian: Nouakchott
- Western Mari: Нуакшот
- Western Panjabi: نواکشوط
- Western Panjabi: نوواکوٹ
- Wolof: Nouakchott
- Wu Chinese: 努瓦克肖特
- Xhosa: Nouakchott
- Yiddish: נואקשאט
- Yiddish: נואקשוט
- Yoruba: Nouakchott
- Yue Chinese: 或索
- Nouakchat
- Nuwaaksot
Other Places Named Nouakchott
Localities in the Area
- دوار مدريدLocality
- El MinaSuburb
- الحي السكني للحرسNeighbourhood
- عرفات قطاع 1 امتدادQuarter
- المفترقSuburb
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