Matam
Matam is the capital town of the Matam Region in north-east Senegal, and lies on the Sénégal River on the border with Mauritania. In the census of 2002, Matam had 14,620 inhabitants and in the 2023 census the population of the town had increased to 27,695.- Locality with 27,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 22 metres (72 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MAX
- …is also known as “Matam, Senegal”
- Description: city and regional capital in Senegal
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ouro Sogui.
Ouro Sogui
Town
Ouro Sogui or Ourossogui lies in Matam Region… Ouro Sogui is situated 9 km southwest of Matam.
Matam
- Category: city
- Location
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Latitude
15.65587° or 15° 39′ 21″ north
Longitude
-13.25544° or 13° 15′ 20″ west
UN/LOCODE
SN MAX
Open location code
7C78MP4V+8R
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wolof—“Matam” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማታም”
- Arabic: “ماتام”
- Asturian: “Matam”
- Azerbaijani: “Matam”
- Basque: “Matam”
- Bengali: “মাতাম”
- Bulgarian: “Матам”
- Catalan: “Matam”
- Cebuano: “Matam (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Matam”
- Chinese: “馬塔姆”
- Chinese: “马塔姆”
- Danish: “Matam”
- Dutch: “Matam”
- Esperanto: “Matam”
- Finnish: “Matam”
- French: “Matam”
- Fulah: “Matam, Senegal”
- German: “Matam”
- Greek: “Ματάμ”
- Hausa: “Matam”
- Hindi: “मताम”
- Indonesian: “Matam”
- Italian: “Matam”
- Japanese: “マタム”
- Javanese: “Matam”
- Kazakh: “Матам”
- Kirghiz: “Матам”
- Korean: “마탐”
- Lithuanian: “Matamas”
- Malay: “Matam”
- Northern Frisian: “Matam”
- Oromo: “Matam”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਤਾਮ”
- Persian: “ماتام”
- Polish: “Matam”
- Portuguese: “Matam”
- Pushto: “ماتام”
- Romanian: “Matam, Senegal”
- Romanian: “Matam”
- Russian: “Матам”
- Silesian: “Matam”
- Somali: “Matam”
- Spanish: “Matam”
- Swahili: “Matam”
- Swedish: “Matam”
- Tajik: “Матам”
- Tatar: “Матам”
- Turkish: “Matam”
- Turkish: “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”
- Ukrainian: “Матам (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Матам”
- Urdu: “ماتام، سینیگال”
- Urdu: “ماتام”
- Uzbek: “Matam”
- Wolof: “Maatam”
- Wolof: “Mataam”
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