Assaba Region

Assaba is a region in southern , covering an area of 36,600 square km. It had a population of 325,897 at the 2013 Census. Its capital is .
  • State with 452,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 159 metres (522 feet)
  • Description: region of Mauritania
  • Also known as
    “Al ‘Aşşābah”
    “Assaba”
    “Assaba الحوض الشرقي”
    “III”
    “La‘şābah”
    “Région d’El ’Açâba”
    “Troisième Région”
    “Wilāyat al ‘Aşşābah”
    “Wilāyat La‘şābah”

Assaba Region

This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Latitude
16.5809° or 16° 34′ 51″ north
Longitude
-11.5364° or 11° 32′ 11″ west
Open location code
7C8CHFJ7+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Assaba Region” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አሳባ”
  • Arabic: “الحوض الشرقي”
  • Arabic: “العصابة”
  • Arabic: “لعصابة”
  • Arabic: “ولاية العصابة”
  • Arabic: “ولاية لعصابة”
  • Arabic: “ولايه العصابه”
  • Azerbaijani: “Assaba”
  • Belarusian: “Асаба”
  • Belarusian: “Вобласць Асаба”
  • Bengali: “আসাবা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Асаба”
  • Catalan: “Assaba”
  • Cebuano: “Assaba”
  • Chinese: “阿萨巴省”
  • Chinese: “阿薩巴省”
  • Danish: “Assaba”
  • Dutch: “Assaba”
  • Esperanto: “Assaba”
  • Finnish: “Assaba”
  • Finnish: “Assaban alue”
  • French: “Assaba”
  • French: “Région de l’Assaba”
  • French: “Wilaya de l’Assaba”
  • German: “Assaba”
  • German: “MR-03”
  • Greek: “Ασσάμπα”
  • Gujarati: “અસાબા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Assaba”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אסאבה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אסבה”
  • Hindi: “अस्साबा”
  • Hindi: “आसाबा क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Assaba”
  • Indonesian: “Assaba”
  • Italian: “regione di Assaba”
  • Italian: “Regione di Assaba”
  • Japanese: “アサバ地方”
  • Japanese: “アサバ州”
  • Javanese: “Assaba”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಸಬಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Асаба”
  • Kirghiz: “Асаба”
  • Korean: “아사바주”
  • Latvian: “Asāba”
  • Latvian: “Asābas vilājs”
  • Lithuanian: “Asabos vilaja”
  • Malay: “Assaba”
  • Marathi: “अस्साबा प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Assaba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Assaba”
  • Norwegian: “Assaba”
  • Oromo: “Assaba”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸਾਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان عصابه”
  • Polish: “Al-Asaba”
  • Polish: “Assaba”
  • Portuguese: “Assaba”
  • Pushto: “آصابہ”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Assaba”
  • Russian: “Асаба”
  • Russian: “Ассаба”
  • Sinhala: “අස්සබා කලාපය”
  • Somali: “Assaba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آسابا بؤلگه‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Assaba”
  • Spanish: “Región de Assaba”
  • Swahili: “Assaba”
  • Swedish: “Assaba”
  • Swedish: “Barkeiwel (moughataa)”
  • Swedish: “Barkeiwel”
  • Swedish: “Boumdeid (moughataa)”
  • Swedish: “Guerou (moughataa)”
  • Swedish: “Kankossa (moughataa)”
  • Swedish: “Kankossa”
  • Swedish: “Kiffa (moughataa)”
  • Tajik: “Асаба”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாபா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Асаба”
  • Telugu: “అసాబా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “อัซซาบา”
  • Turkish: “Assaba Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Асаба”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Асаба”
  • Urdu: “عصابہ ریجن”
  • Urdu: “عصابہ علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Assaba”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Assaba”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kandara and Kantara.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nbeyyet el Firâne and ’Elb Bellemtâr.

Mauritania: Highlights

Notable places include Nouakchott and Nouadhibou.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.