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Oualata

Oualata or Walāta is a small oasis town in southeast , located at the eastern end of the basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 11,800 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Oualâta”, “Walatah”, and “ولاته”

Oualata

Latitude
17.30047° or 17° 18′ 2″ north
Longitude
-7.02581° or 7° 1′ 33″ west
Population
11,800
Elevation
304 metres (997 feet)
Open location code
7C9J8X2F+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2382426683
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2377327
Wiki­data ID
Q162281
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Oualata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاتة”
  • Asturian: “Oualata”
  • Basque: “Oualata”
  • Catalan: “Oualata”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉塔”
  • Czech: “Oualata”
  • Danish: “Oualata”
  • Dutch: “Iwalatan”
  • Dutch: “Oualata”
  • Finnish: “Oualata”
  • French: “Oualata”
  • Georgian: “უალატა”
  • German: “Oualata”
  • German: “Walata”
  • Hebrew: “ואלאטה”
  • Hebrew: “ולאתה”
  • Indonesian: “Oualata”
  • Italian: “Oualata”
  • Japanese: “ウアラタ”
  • Kazakh: “Уалата қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Уалата”
  • Kotava: “Oualata”
  • Latin: “Gualata”
  • Latvian: “Valāta (Mauritānija)”
  • Latvian: “Valāta”
  • Lithuanian: “Ualata”
  • Malay: “Oualata”
  • Nepali: “उआलता”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oualata”
  • Norwegian: “Oualata”
  • Polish: “Walata”
  • Portuguese: “Oualata”
  • Portuguese: “Ualata”
  • Romanian: “Oualata”
  • Russian: “Валата”
  • Russian: “Уалата”
  • Spanish: “Ualata”
  • Swahili: “Oualata”
  • Swedish: “Oualata”
  • Thai: “วาลาตา”
  • Turkish: “Oualata”
  • Ukrainian: “Уалата”
  • Urdu: “ولاتہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Oualata”
  • “Oualata”

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