Sahel
Mauritania
Trarza

Rosso

Rosso is the major city of south-western and capital of Trarza region. It is situated on the at the head of the river zone allowing year-round navigation. The town is 204 km south of the capital .
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  • Type: City with 75,600 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Roco”

Rosso

Latitude
16.51325° or 16° 30′ 48″ north
Longitude
-15.80997° or 15° 48′ 36″ west
Population
75,600
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MR ROS
Open location code
7C86G57R+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 277741100
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2376898
Wiki­data ID
Q861580
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Veps—“Rosso” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rosso”
  • Arabic: “القوارب”
  • Arabic: “روصو”
  • Basque: “Rosso”
  • Belarusian: “Роса (Маўрытанія)”
  • Belarusian: “Роса”
  • Catalan: “Rosso”
  • Cebuano: “Rosso (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Rosso”
  • Chinese: “罗索”
  • Chinese: “羅索”
  • Danish: “Rosso”
  • Dutch: “Rosso”
  • Estonian: “Rosso”
  • Finnish: “Rosso”
  • French: “Rosso”
  • German: “Al-Quwarib”
  • German: “Rosso”
  • German: “Russu”
  • Hebrew: “רוסו”
  • Italian: “Rosso”
  • Japanese: “ロッソ”
  • Kazakh: “Roso qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Росо қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Росо”
  • Kazakh: “روسو قالاسى”
  • Korean: “로소”
  • Latin: “Rosso”
  • Latvian: “Roso”
  • Lithuanian: “Rosas”
  • Malay: “Rosso”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rosso”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosso”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rosso”
  • Persian: “روسو”
  • Persian: “روصو”
  • Polish: “Al-Kuwarib”
  • Polish: “Rosso”
  • Polish: “Rusu”
  • Portuguese: “Rosso”
  • Romanian: “Rosso, Mauritania”
  • Romanian: “Rosso”
  • Russian: “Росо”
  • Serbian: “Rosso”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rosso”
  • Slovenian: “Rosso”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روسو (موریتانی)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روسو”
  • Spanish: “Rosso”
  • Swahili: “Rosso”
  • Swedish: “Rosso”
  • Turkish: “Rosso”
  • Ukrainian: “Росо”
  • Urdu: “روصو”
  • Veps: “Roso”

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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 “Rosso”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.