Kiffa
Kiffa is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region. Kiffa is located at, some 600 kilometres from the coast and at the western end of the Aoukar sand sea of southern Mauritania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 60,000 residents
- Description: commune of Mauritania
- Also known as: “Kîfa”, “Kifah”, and “Kīfah”
Kiffa
- Categories: commune of Mauritania, big city, and locality
- Location: Assaba Region, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.6162° or 16° 36′ 58″ northLongitude
-11.4002° or 11° 24′ 1″ westPopulation
60,000Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)Inception
1907IATA airport code
KFAUnited Nations Location Code
MR KFAOpen location code
7C8CJH8X+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 330423418OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kiffa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيفة”
- Arabic: “كيفه”
- Armenian: “Կիֆֆա”
- Asturian: “Kiffa”
- Basque: “Kiffa”
- Belarusian: “Кіфа”
- Bengali: “কিফফা”
- Bulgarian: “Кифа”
- Catalan: “Kiffa”
- Cebuano: “Kiffa”
- Chinese: “基法”
- Czech: “Kiffa”
- Danish: “Kiffa”
- Dutch: “Kiffa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيفه”
- Esperanto: “Kiffa”
- Estonian: “Kifa”
- Estonian: “Kiffa”
- Finnish: “Kiffa”
- French: “Kifa”
- French: “Kiffa”
- German: “Kīfa”
- German: “Kiffa”
- Greek: “Κίφφα”
- Gujarati: “કિફા”
- Hawaiian: “Kipa”
- Hebrew: “כיפה”
- Hindi: “किफ्फा”
- Indonesian: “Kiffa”
- Irish: “Kiffa”
- Italian: “Kiffa”
- Japanese: “キファ”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಫಾ”
- Kazakh: “Kïffa qalası”
- Kazakh: “Киффа қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Киффа”
- Kazakh: “كىيففا قالاسى”
- Korean: “키파”
- Latvian: “Kifa”
- Latvian: “Kīfa”
- Lithuanian: “Kifa”
- Low German: “Kiffa”
- Malay: “Kiffa”
- Marathi: “किफा”
- Northern Frisian: “Kiffa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiffa”
- Persian: “کیفه”
- Polish: “Al-Kifa”
- Polish: “Kifa”
- Polish: “Kiffa”
- Portuguese: “Kiffa”
- Romanian: “Kiffa”
- Russian: “Киффа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kiffa”
- Sinhala: “කිෆා”
- Slovak: “Kiffa”
- Spanish: “Kifa”
- Spanish: “Kiffa”
- Swahili: “Kiffa”
- Swedish: “Kiffa”
- Tamil: “கீபா”
- Telugu: “కిఫ్ఫా”
- Thai: “คิฟฟา”
- Turkish: “Kiffa”
- Ukrainian: “Кіффа”
- Urdu: “کیفہ”
- Venetian: “Kiffa”
- Veps: “Kiff”
- Vietnamese: “Kiffa”
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