Kawar
The Kaouar is a series of ten oases in the southern Sahara in northeast Niger, covering about 75 km from north to south, and 1–5 km east to west. They are on the eastern edge of the Ténéré desert, between the Tibesti Mountains in the east and the Aïr Mountains in the west and between the Fezzan in the north and Lake Chad in the south.Photo: Holger Reineccius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Oasis
- Description: valley in Niger
- Also known as: “Kaouar”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dirkou.
Dirkou
Town
Dirkou is a town in the Bilma Department, Agadez Region of north-eastern Niger. It lies in the northern Kaouar escarpment, a north–south line of cliffs which form an isolated oasis in the Sahara desert. Dirkou is situated 9 km south of Kawar.
Kawar
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Kawar” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kaouar”
- Dutch: “Kaouar”
- Esperanto: “Kaouar-valo”
- Finnish: “Kaouar”
- Finnish: “Kawar”
- French: “Kaouar Oasis”
- French: “Kaouar”
- French: “Kawar”
- Georgian: “კაუარი”
- German: “Kaouar-Tal”
- German: “Kaouar”
- German: “Kawar”
- Hausa: “Kauar”
- Hebrew: “קאואר”
- Japanese: “カウアル山地”
- Japanese: “カワール渓谷”
- Luxembourgish: “Kaouar-Dall”
- Portuguese: “Cauar”
- Russian: “Кавар”
- Russian: “Кауар”
- Spanish: “Kaouar”
- Swedish: “Kaouar”
- Ukrainian: “Долина Кавар”
- “Kaouar”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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