Zaltan
Zaltan or Zelten is a town in the district of Nuqat al Khams of northwestern Libya. The town, which has a population of around 17,700, is on the Mediterranean coast. It is located around 140 kilometres west of Tripoli.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 17,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Libya
- Also known as: “Zulten”
Zaltan
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Libya, and locality
- Location: Nuqat al Khams, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.94615° or 32° 56′ 46″ northLongitude
11.8668° or 11° 52′ 1″ eastPopulation
17,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
8F4HWVW8+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1169748270OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2208655Wikidata ID
Q3123958
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Zaltan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زلطن”
- Arabic: “زليطن”
- Arabic: “زليطين”
- Cebuano: “Zalţan”
- Dutch: “Zaltan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زلطن”
- French: “Zaltan”
- French: “Zelten”
- German: “Zelten”
- Irish: “Zaltan”
- Italian: “Zaltan”
- Persian: “زلطن”
- Polish: “Zaltan”
- Portuguese: “Zaltan”
- Portuguese: “Zaltane”
- Spanish: “Zaltan”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵣⵍⵉⵜⵏ”
- Swedish: “Zaltan”
- Swedish: “Zalţan”
- Turkish: “Zaltan”
- Zulu: “Zaltan”
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