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Hodh El Gharbi

Hodh El Gharbi is a region in southern , with an area of 53,400 square km. The population at the 2013 census was 294,109. Its capital is .
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  • Type: State with 403,000 residents
  • Description: region of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Al Ḩawḑ al Gharbī”, “Cecle du Hodh Occidental”, “Deuxième Region”, “Hodh El Gharbi region”, “HodhelGharbi”, “II”, “Number 2”, “Wilaya du Hodh el Gharbi”, and “Wilāyat al Ḩawḑ al Gharbī”

Hodh El Gharbi

Latitude
16.5694° or 16° 34′ 10″ north
Longitude
-9.8322° or 9° 49′ 56″ west
Population
403,000
Elevation
196 metres (643 feet)
Open location code
7C8GH599+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2651781115
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2379024
Wiki­data ID
Q850435
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Hodh El Gharbi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحوض الغربي”
  • Arabic: “ولاية الحوض الغربي”
  • Arabic: “ولايه الحوض الغربي”
  • Bengali: “হোদ এল গাব্রি অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Худ ал-Гарби”
  • Bulgarian: “Худ-ал-Гарби”
  • Catalan: “Hodh Occidental”
  • Cebuano: “Hodh el Gharbi”
  • Chinese: “西胡德省”
  • Danish: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Dutch: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Esperanto: “Hod-el-Garbi”
  • Finnish: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Finnish: “Hodh El Gharbin maakunta”
  • French: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • French: “Région du Hodh El Gharbi”
  • French: “Wilaya du Hodh el Gharby”
  • German: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • German: “MR-02”
  • Greek: “Χοντ Ελ Γκάρμπι”
  • Gujarati: “હોદ અલ ગરબી પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “होद एल घर्बी क्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Italian: “regione di Hodh-Gharbi”
  • Italian: “Regione di Hodh-Gharbi”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エル・ガルビ”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エル・ガルビ地方”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エル・ガルビ州”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エルガルビ”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エルガルビ地方”
  • Japanese: “ホズ・エルガルビ州”
  • Japanese: “ホズエルガルビ”
  • Japanese: “ホズエルガルビ地方”
  • Japanese: “ホズエルガルビ州”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊದ್ ಎಲ್ ಘರ್ಬಿ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “호드엘가르비주”
  • Latvian: “Hod el Garbi reģions”
  • Latvian: “Rietumhoda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hod el Garbio vilaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Hod el Garbis”
  • Lithuanian: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Malay: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Marathi: “होद एल गरबी प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hodh el-Gharbi”
  • Norwegian: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Persian: “استان حوض غربی”
  • Polish: “Al-Haud al-Gharbi”
  • Polish: “Haud al-Gharbi”
  • Polish: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Portuguese: “Hodh el Gharbi”
  • Romanian: “Hodh el gharbi”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Russian: “Ход-эль-Гарби”
  • Sinhala: “හොද්හ් එල් ඝර්බි කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “හෝඩ් එල් ගර්බි කලාපය”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الحوض الغربی بؤلگه‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Hod Occidental”
  • Spanish: “Hodh el Gharbi”
  • Spanish: “Región Hod Occidental”
  • Swedish: “Aioun Al Atrouss”
  • Swedish: “Hodh El Gharbi”
  • Swedish: “Koubenni”
  • Swedish: “Tamchaket”
  • Swedish: “Tintane”
  • Tamil: “ஹோத் எல் காரபீ பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “హోద్ ఎల్ ఘార్బి ప్రాంతం”
  • Telugu: “హోధ్ ఎల్ ఘార్బి ప్రాంతం”
  • Turkish: “Hodh El Garbi”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Ход-Ель-Гарбі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ход-ель-Гарбі”
  • Urdu: “حوض الغربی ریجن”
  • Urdu: “حوض الغربی علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Hodh El Gharbi”

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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 “Hodh El Gharbi”. Photo: Toksave, CC BY-SA 3.0.