Tékane
Tékane is a town and urban commune in the Trarza Region of southern Mauritania, near the border of Senegal. It is located east of Rosso. In 2000, it had a population of 22,041. In 2023, it had a population of 15,304.
- Type: Town with 22,000 residents
- Description: department of Mauritania
- Also known as: “Taykān”, “Tekane”, “Tekane تيكان”, and “Tiékane”
Tékane
- Categories: commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: R’kiz, Trarza, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.60204° or 16° 36′ 7″ north
Longitude
-15.34927° or 15° 20′ 57″ west
Population
22,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7C86JM22+R7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Tékane” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيكان”
- Arabic: “تَيْكَانُ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تيكان”
- Arabic: “نُتَيْكَانُ”
- Cebuano: “Tékane”
- Corsican: “Tékane”
- French: “Tekane”
- French: “Tékane”
- German: “Tékane”
- Italian: “Tékane”
- Malay: “Tékane”
- Persian: “تکان، موریتانی”
- Romanian: “Tékane”
- Sardinian: “Tékane”
- Sassarese Sardinian: “Tékane”
- South Azerbaijani: “تکان، موریتانی”
- Spanish: “Tékane”
- Swedish: “Tékane”
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