Kiffa
Kiffa is the capital of the Assaba region of southern Mauritania. It lies on the Route de l'Espoir, the country's principal east–west highway, roughly midway between Nouakchott and Néma.
- Type: City with 60,000 residents
- Description: commune of Mauritania
- Also known as: “Al-Kifa”, “Kîfa”, “Kifah”, “Kīfah”, and “Kiffa كيفة”
Kiffa
- Categories: commune of Mauritania, big city, and locality
- Location: Assaba Region, Sahelian Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.6162° or 16° 36′ 58″ north
Longitude
-11.4002° or 11° 24′ 1″ west
Population
60,000
Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)
Established
1907
IATA airport code
KFA
UN/LOCODE
MR KFA
Open location code
7C8CJH8X+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Kiffa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኪፋ”
- Arabic: “كيفة”
- Armenian: “Կիֆֆա”
- Asturian: “Kiffa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiffa”
- Basque: “Kiffa”
- Belarusian: “Кіфа”
- Bengali: “কিফফা”
- Bengali: “কিফ্ফা”
- Bulgarian: “Кифа”
- Catalan: “Kiffa”
- Cebuano: “Kiffa”
- Chinese: “基法”
- Czech: “Kiffa”
- Danish: “Kiffa”
- Dutch: “Kiffa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيفه”
- Esperanto: “Kiffa”
- Estonian: “Kifa”
- Finnish: “Kiffa”
- French: “Kiffa”
- German: “Kiffa”
- Greek: “Κίφφα”
- Gujarati: “કિફા”
- Hausa: “Kiffa”
- Hawaiian: “Kipa”
- Hebrew: “כיפה”
- Hindi: “किफ्फा”
- Hindi: “कीफ़्फ़ा”
- Indonesian: “Kiffa”
- Irish: “Kiffa”
- Italian: “Kiffa”
- Japanese: “キファ”
- Javanese: “Kiffa”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಫಾ”
- Kazakh: “Kïffa qalası”
- Kazakh: “Киффа қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Киффа”
- Kazakh: “كىيففا قالاسى”
- Kirghiz: “Киффа”
- Korean: “키파”
- Latvian: “Kīfa”
- Lithuanian: “Kifa”
- Low German: “Kiffa”
- Malay: “Kiffa”
- Marathi: “किफा”
- Northern Frisian: “Kiffa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiffa”
- Oromo: “Kiffa”
- Panjabi: “ਕਿਫ਼ਾ”
- Persian: “کیفا”
- Persian: “کیفه”
- Polish: “Kifa”
- Portuguese: “Kiffa”
- Pushto: “کفہ”
- Romanian: “Kiffa”
- Russian: “Киффа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kiffa”
- Sinhala: “කිෆා”
- Slovak: “Kiffa”
- Somali: “Kiffa”
- Spanish: “Kifa”
- Swahili: “Kiffa”
- Swedish: “Kiffa”
- Tajik: “Киффа”
- Tamil: “கீபா”
- Tatar: “Киффа”
- Telugu: “కిఫ్ఫా”
- Thai: “คิฟฟา”
- Turkish: “Kiffa”
- Ukrainian: “Кіффа”
- Urdu: “کیفہ”
- Uzbek: “Kiffa”
- Venetian: “Kiffa”
- Veps: “Kiff”
- Vietnamese: “Kiffa”
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