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 .
Wikipedia
  • Type: State with 452,000 residents
  • Description: region of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Al ‘Aşşābah”, “Assaba”, “Assaba region”, “Assaba الحوض الشرقي”, “Barkeiwel”, “Barkeiwel (moughataa)”, “Boumdeid (moughataa)”, “Guerou (moughataa)”, “III”, “Kankossa”, “Kankossa (moughataa)”, “Kiffa (moughataa)”, “La‘şābah”, “MR-03”, “Région d’El ’Açâba”, “Troisième Région”, “Wilāyat al ‘Aşşābah”, “Wilāyat La‘şābah”, “מחוז אסבה”, “عصابہ ریجن”, “ولايه العصابه”, and “アサバ地方”

Assaba Region

Latitude
16.5809° or 16° 34′ 51″ north
Longitude
-11.5364° or 11° 32′ 11″ west
Population
452,000
Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)
Open location code
7C8CHFJ7+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2651781109
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2381344
Wiki­data ID
Q738546
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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”
  • 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”
  • Greek: “Ασσάμπα”
  • Gujarati: “અસાબા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Assaba”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אסאבה”
  • Hindi: “अस्साबा”
  • Hindi: “आसाबा क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Assaba”
  • Indonesian: “Assaba”
  • Italian: “regione di Assaba”
  • Italian: “Regione di Assaba”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Tajik: “Асаба”
  • Tamil: “ஆசாபா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Асаба”
  • Telugu: “అసాబా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “อัซซาบา”
  • Turkish: “Assaba Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Асаба”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Асаба”
  • Urdu: “عصابہ علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Assaba”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Assaba”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Kandara and Kantara.

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