Aleg

Aleg is the capital of the Brakna Region, in . It is located at. The city name means “ascending path” in Zenaga. It lies on Lake Aleg.
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  • Type: City with 19,200 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Alak”, “Alāk”, “Alaq”, and “Aleg ألاك”

Aleg

Latitude
17.05272° or 17° 3′ 10″ north
Longitude
-13.9153° or 13° 54′ 55″ west
Population
19,200
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
IATA airport code
LEG
United Nations Location Code
MR LEG
Open location code
7C98333M+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 330457384
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2381659
Wiki­data ID
Q986384
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Aleg” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኤሌግ”
  • Arabic: “ألاك”
  • Arabic: “ألاگ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aleg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aleq”
  • Basque: “Aleg”
  • Belarusian: “Алег”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালেগ”
  • Bengali: “আলেগ”
  • Cebuano: “Aleg (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Aleg”
  • Chinese: “阿莱格”
  • Chinese: “阿萊格”
  • Danish: “Aleg”
  • Dutch: “Aleg”
  • Esperanto: “Aleg”
  • Finnish: “Aleg”
  • French: “Aleg”
  • German: “Alak”
  • German: “Aleg”
  • Greek: “Άλεγκ”
  • Gujarati: “એલેગ”
  • Hausa: “Aleg”
  • Hebrew: “אלג”
  • Hindi: “अलेग”
  • Icelandic: “Aleg”
  • Indonesian: “Aleg”
  • Italian: “Aleg”
  • Japanese: “アレグ”
  • Javanese: “Aleg”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೆಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Алег”
  • Kirghiz: “Алег”
  • Korean: “알레그”
  • Latvian: “Alega”
  • Lithuanian: “Alegas”
  • Malay: “Aleg”
  • Marathi: “एलेग”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aleg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aleg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alég”
  • Norwegian: “Aleg”
  • Oromo: “Aleg”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲੇਗ”
  • Persian: “الاک”
  • Persian: “الاگ”
  • Persian: “الیگ”
  • Polish: “Alak”
  • Polish: “Aleg”
  • Portuguese: “Aleg”
  • Pushto: “الیگ”
  • Romanian: “Aleg”
  • Russian: “Алег”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aleg”
  • Silesian: “Alak”
  • Sinhala: “අලෙග්”
  • Somali: “Aleg”
  • Spanish: “Aleg”
  • Swahili: “Aleg”
  • Swedish: “Aleg”
  • Swedish: “Alég”
  • Tajik: “Алег”
  • Tamil: “ஆலெஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Алег”
  • Telugu: “అలెగ్”
  • Thai: “อเลก”
  • Turkish: “Aleg”
  • Ukrainian: “Алег”
  • Urdu: “آلاگ”
  • Urdu: “الیگ”
  • Uzbek: “Aleg”
  • Vietnamese: “Aleg”

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