Arlit
Arlit is an industrial town and capital of the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger, built between the Sahara Desert and the eastern edge of the Aïr Mountains.
- Type: City with 112,000 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “Arhli”, “Arli”, and “Gari”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akokan.
Akokan
Town
Akokan is a mining town in the Arlit Department of the Agadez Region of northern-central Niger.
Arlit
- Categories: municipality of Niger, place with town rights and privileges, mining community, and locality
- Location: Agadez, Niger, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
NE RLT
Open location code
7FC9P9QV+J8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- 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: “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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Tassilim and Bagdad.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Direction des Enseignements Secondaires and Brigade de G N Arlit.
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