Matam Region
Matam is a region of Senegal. It is a flat, arid region bounded on the north by the Sénégal River and the south by the Sahelian plain studded with baobab trees.- Type: region of Senegal with 834,000 residents
- Description: region of Senegal
- Also known as: “Conseil régional de Matam”, “Diwaanu Maatam”, “Matam”, “Matam region”, “Matameko eskualdea”, “Matamio regionas”, “Região de Matam”, “Region de Matam”, “Région de Matam”, “Región Matam”, “Regiono de Matam”, “Regiono Matam”, “SN-MT”, and “ماتام ریجن”
- Neighbors: Tambacounda Region
Matam Region
- Location: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
15.1667° or 15° 10′ north
Longitude
-13.6667° or 13° 40′ west
Population
834,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
7C78588M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Matam Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማታም”
- Arabic: “إقليم ماتام”
- Arabic: “ماتام”
- Azerbaijani: “Matam”
- Basque: “Matam eskualdea”
- Basque: “Matam”
- Bengali: “মাতাম”
- Bulgarian: “Матам”
- Catalan: “Matam”
- Cebuano: “Matam”
- Chinese: “馬塔姆區”
- Chinese: “马塔姆区”
- Danish: “Matam”
- Danish: “Region Matam”
- Dutch: “Matam”
- Esperanto: “Matam”
- Finnish: “Matam”
- Finnish: “Matamin alue”
- French: “Matam”
- Fulah: “Matam Region”
- Galician: “Rexión de Matam”
- German: “Region Matam”
- Greek: “Ματάμ”
- Gujarati: “માતમ”
- Hausa: “Matam”
- Hindi: “मतम”
- Indonesian: “Region Matam”
- Italian: “Matam”
- Italian: “Regione di Matam”
- Japanese: “マタム州”
- Javanese: “Matam”
- Kannada: “ಮಾತಮ್”
- Kazakh: “Матам”
- Kirghiz: “Матам”
- Korean: “마탐주”
- Latvian: “Matama”
- Latvian: “Mātamas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Matamo regionas”
- Malay: “Matam”
- Marathi: “मातम”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matam Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Matam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matam”
- Norwegian: “Matam”
- Oromo: “Matam”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਤਾਮ”
- Persian: “ناحیه متام”
- Polish: “Matam”
- Portuguese: “Matã”
- Portuguese: “Matam”
- Pushto: “ماتام”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Matam”
- Russian: “Матам”
- Scots: “Matam Region”
- Sinhala: “මටම්”
- Somali: “Matam”
- Spanish: “Matam”
- Spanish: “Región de Matam”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Matam”
- Swedish: “Matam”
- Tajik: “Матам”
- Tamil: “மதம்”
- Tatar: “Матам”
- Telugu: “మాటమ్”
- Thai: “มปูมาลานกา”
- Turkish: “Matam”
- Ukrainian: “Матам”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Матам”
- Urdu: “ماتام علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Matam”
- Vietnamese: “Matam”
- Wolof: “Diiwaanu Maatam”
- Wu Chinese: “马塔姆区”
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