Sahel
Mauritania
Gorgol Region

Kaédi

Kaédi is the largest city and administrative center of the Gorgol Region of Southern , located on the border with . It is approximately 435 km from Mauritania's capital, .
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  • Type: City with 56,300 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Kaedi”, “Kayhaydi”, “Kayhaydī”, and “Kayhīdī”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kaihaidi Hospital.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kaedi Regional Hospital is the largest health facility in the Gorgol Region in southern , and one known for its innovative architecture. The new hospital involves the use of hand fired locally made brick and a design based on a sequence of simple and complex dome structures.

Kaédi

Latitude
16.1524° or 16° 9′ 9″ north
Longitude
-13.504° or 13° 30′ 14″ west
Population
56,300
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
KED
United Nations Location Code
MR KED
Open location code
7C885F2W+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 277741361
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2378736
Wiki­data ID
Q524984
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Veps—“Kaédi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيهيدي”
  • Basque: “Kaedi”
  • Cebuano: “Kaédi”
  • Chinese: “卡埃迪”
  • Czech: “Kaédi”
  • Danish: “Kaédi”
  • Dutch: “Kaédi”
  • Finnish: “Kaédi”
  • French: “Kaédi”
  • German: “Kaédi”
  • German: “Kaihaidi”
  • Hebrew: “קאדי”
  • Italian: “Kaedi”
  • Italian: “Kaédi”
  • Japanese: “カエディ”
  • Kazakh: “Каэди қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Каэди”
  • Korean: “카에디”
  • Latvian: “Kaedi”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaedis”
  • Malay: “Kaédi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaédi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaédi”
  • Persian: “کیهیدی”
  • Polish: “Kajhajdi”
  • Portuguese: “Caedi”
  • Portuguese: “Kaédi”
  • Romanian: “Kaédi”
  • Russian: “Каэди”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaédi”
  • Spanish: “Kaedi”
  • Spanish: “Kaédi”
  • Swahili: “Kaédi”
  • Swedish: “Kaédi”
  • Ukrainian: “Каеді”
  • Urdu: “کیھیدی”
  • Uzbek: “Kaedi”
  • Veps: “Kaedi”

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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 “Kaédi”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.