El Djouf
El Djouf is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern Mali. El Djouf is a part of the Sahara Desert in the north.- Type: Desert
- Description: Desert in Mauritania and Mali
- Also known as: “Désert el Djouf”, “Djouf”, “El Djouf Desert”, “El Djous”, “El Juf”, “El-Djuf”, “Juf”, and “Majâbat al-Koubra”
El Djouf
- Category: landform
- Location: Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Djouf” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجوف (موريتانيا-مالي)”
- Arabic: “الجوف”
- Catalan: “El Djouf”
- Cebuano: “El Djouf (kamadan)”
- Cebuano: “El Djouf”
- Czech: “el-Džauf”
- Czech: “el-Džuf”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجوف”
- Finnish: “El Djouf”
- French: “El Djouf”
- German: “El Djouf”
- Latvian: “Džūfs”
- Polish: “Al-Dżuf”
- Russian: “Эль-Джуф”
- Serbian: “El Džuf”
- Serbian: “Ел Џуф”
- Slovenian: “El Djouf”
- Spanish: “El Djouf”
- Swedish: “El Djouf (öken)”
- Swedish: “El Djouf”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Джуф”
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