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Araouane

Araouane or Arawan is a small village in the part of the Sahara Desert, lying 243 km north of on the caravan route to the salt-mining centre of . The village once served as an entrepôt in the trans-Saharan trade.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 4,030 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Araouan” and “Araoune”

Araouane

Latitude
18.90419° or 18° 54′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.52647° or 3° 31′ 35″ west
Population
4,030
Elevation
285 metres (935 feet)
Open location code
7CCRWF3F+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2159959765
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2460954
Wiki­data ID
Q626121
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Araouane” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أراوان”
  • Arabic: “أروان”
  • Arabic: “أَرَوَانُ”
  • Bambara: “Arawan”
  • Cebuano: “Araouane”
  • Chinese: “Araouane”
  • Chinese: “阿拉萬”
  • Dutch: “Araouane”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اراوان”
  • Esperanto: “Araouane”
  • Esperanto: “Vikipedio:Tradukado/Araouane”
  • Estonian: “Araouane”
  • Finnish: “Araouane”
  • French: “Araouane”
  • German: “Araouane”
  • German: “Arauan”
  • German: “Arouane”
  • German: “El-Arauan”
  • Irish: “Araouane”
  • Italian: “Araouane”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Araouane”
  • Russian: “Араван (Мали)”
  • Russian: “Араван”
  • Swedish: “Araouane”
  • Ukrainian: “Араван”

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