Bilma
Bilma is an oasis town and commune in north east Niger with, as of the 2012 census, a total population of 4,016 people. It lies protected from the desert dunes under the Kaouar Cliffs and is the largest town along the Kaouar escarpment.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Holger Reineccius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 6,480 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “Bilina”
Bilma
- Categories: municipality of Niger, oasis, town, and locality
- Location: Agadez, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
18.69293° or 18° 41′ 35″ northLongitude
12.91872° or 12° 55′ 7″ eastPopulation
6,480Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)Open location code
7FCJMWV9+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 419495618OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2446796Wikidata ID
Q863321
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bilma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيلما”
- Arabic: “فور درومار” (historical)
- Belarusian: “Більма”
- Bulgarian: “Билма”
- Catalan: “Bilma”
- Catalan: “Togeï”
- Cebuano: “Bilma”
- Chinese: “比尔马”
- Chinese: “比爾馬”
- Croatian: “Bilma”
- Czech: “Bilma”
- Dutch: “Bilma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلما”
- Esperanto: “Bilma”
- Finnish: “Bilma”
- Finnish: “Fort Dromard”
- French: “Bilma”
- German: “Bilma”
- Greek: “Μπιλμά”
- Greek: “Μπίλμα”
- Hausa: “Bilma”
- Italian: “Bilma”
- Japanese: “ビルマ”
- Korean: “빌마”
- Lithuanian: “Bilma”
- Luxembourgish: “Bilma”
- Malay: “Bilma”
- Polish: “Bilma”
- Portuguese: “Bilma”
- Romanian: “Bilma, niger”
- Romanian: “Bilma, Niger”
- Romanian: “Bilma”
- Russian: “Бильма”
- Spanish: “Bilma”
- Swedish: “Bilma”
- Turkish: “Bilma”
- Ukrainian: “Білма”
- Urdu: “بیلما”
- Vietnamese: “Bilma”
- “Bilma”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bilma”. Photo: Holger Reineccius, CC BY-SA 3.0.