Mauritania
Trarza
R’kiz

Tékane

Tékane is a town and urban commune in the Trarza Region of southern , near the border of . It is located east of . In 2000, it had a population of 22,041.
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: department of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Taykān”, “Tekane”, and “Tiékane”

Tékane

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
node 3186679625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2376189
Wiki­data ID
Q153407
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tékane”. Photo: Mamoudou Ciré, CC BY-SA 4.0.