Aleg
Aleg is the capital of the Brakna Region, in Mauritania. It is located at. The city name means “ascending path” in Zenaga. It lies on Lake Aleg.- City with about 27,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (130 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LEG
- Description: commune of Mauritania
- Also known as“Alāk”“Alaq”“Aleg ألاك”
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Latitude
17.05272° or 17° 3′ 10″ north
Longitude
-13.9153° or 13° 54′ 55″ west
UN/LOCODE
MR LEG
Open location code
7C98333M+3V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “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: “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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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Souk Makkah سوق مكة and Khalifa transport الخليفة للنقل الاك.
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