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Arlit is an industrial town and capital of the of the of northern-central , built between the Sahara Desert and the eastern edge of the .
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  • Type: City with 112,000 residents
  • Description: urban commune in Niger
  • Also known as: “Arhli”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akokan.

Town
is a mining town in the of the of northern-central . It is located about 5 kilometres southwest of Arlit in the Sahara Desert, and roughly 250 kilometres north of .

Arlit

Latitude
18.7391° or 18° 44′ 21″ north
Longitude
7.3933° or 7° 23′ 36″ east
Population
112,000
Elevation
423 metres (1,388 feet)
IATA airport code
RLT
United Nations Location Code
NE RLT
Open location code
7FC9P9QV+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 277882803
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2447513
Wiki­data ID
Q675806
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Xhosa—“Arlit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أرليت”
  • Basque: “Arlit”
  • Bengali: “আরলিট”
  • Catalan: “Arlit”
  • Cebuano: “Arlit”
  • Central Kanuri: “Arlit”
  • Chinese: “阿爾利特”
  • Croatian: “Arlit”
  • Czech: “Arlit”
  • Danish: “Arlit”
  • Dutch: “Arlit”
  • Esperanto: “Arlit”
  • Finnish: “Arlit”
  • French: “Arlit”
  • German: “Arlit”
  • Greek: “Αρλίτ”
  • Gujarati: “અર્લિટ”
  • Hausa: “Arlit”
  • Hausa: “Gari”
  • Hebrew: “ארליט”
  • Hindi: “अर्लित”
  • Hungarian: “Arlit”
  • Igbo: “Arlit”
  • Indonesian: “Arlit”
  • Italian: “Arlit”
  • Japanese: “アーリット”
  • Kannada: “ಆರ್ಲಿಟ್”
  • Korean: “아를리트”
  • Latvian: “Arlita”
  • Lithuanian: “Arli”
  • Lithuanian: “Arlitas”
  • Malay: “Arlit”
  • Marathi: “अर्लीट”
  • Mingrelian: “არლიტი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arlit”
  • Polish: “Arlit”
  • Portuguese: “Arlit”
  • Romanian: “Arlit”
  • Russian: “Арли”
  • Russian: “Арлит”
  • Sinhala: “අර්ලිට්”
  • Spanish: “Arlit”
  • Swahili: “Arlit”
  • Swedish: “Arlit”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்லிட்”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్లిట్”
  • Thai: “อาร์ลิต”
  • Turkish: “Arlit”
  • Ukrainian: “Арліт”
  • Urdu: “ارلیت”
  • Vietnamese: “Arlit”
  • Xhosa: “Arlit”
  • “Arlit”

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