Waddan

Waddan is an oasis town of the Sahara Desert in the northeast Fezzan region of southwest , in the . It was an important town on the ancient trade routes across the Sahara.
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  • City with 27,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 251 metres (823 feet)
  • Description: Historic city in Libya
  • Also known as
    “Uaddan”
    “Waddan, Libya”
    “ⵡⴷⴰⵏ ودان Waddan”

Waddan

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Latitude
29.16138° or 29° 9′ 41″ north
Longitude
16.14131° or 16° 8′ 29″ east
Open location code
7FXR546R+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1193623176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2209055
Wiki­data ID
Q679352

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Waddan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ودان ( ليبيا)”
  • Arabic: “ودان (مدينة ليبية)”
  • Arabic: “ودان(مدينة ليبية)”
  • Arabic: “ودان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vaddan”
  • Belarusian: “Вадан”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াডান”
  • Bulgarian: “Вадан”
  • Cebuano: “Waddān”
  • Chinese: “瓦丹，利比亚”
  • Danish: “Waddan”
  • Dutch: “Waddan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ودان”
  • Finnish: “Waddan”
  • French: “Waddan”
  • Georgian: “უადანი”
  • German: “Waddan”
  • Greek: “Γουαντάν”
  • Gujarati: “વાડન, લિબિયા”
  • Hausa: “Waddan, Libya”
  • Hebrew: “ודאן”
  • Hindi: “वाद्दन”
  • Indonesian: “Waddan”
  • Irish: “Waddan”
  • Italian: “Ueddan”
  • Japanese: “ワッダーン”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಡ್ಡನ್”
  • Korean: “와단”
  • Latvian: “Vadana”
  • Lithuanian: “Vadanas”
  • Malay: “Waddan”
  • Marathi: “वड्डाण, लिबिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Waddan”
  • Persian: “ودان”
  • Polish: “Waddan”
  • Portuguese: “Uadane”
  • Portuguese: “Waddan”
  • Russian: “Ваддан”
  • Sinhala: “වද්දන් ලිබියාව”
  • Somali: “Waddan, Liibiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ودان، لیبی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ودان”
  • Spanish: “Waddan”
  • Swahili: “Waddan”
  • Swedish: “Waddan”
  • Swedish: “Waddān”
  • Tamil: “வாட்டன்”
  • Telugu: “వాడన్”
  • Thai: “วาดดาน, ลิเบีย”
  • Turkish: “Waddan”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваддай”
  • Urdu: “وادان”
  • Vietnamese: “Waddan”
  • Zulu: “Waddan, Libhiya”

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