Zug
Zug is a municipality located in the far south-east of Western Sahara, 170 km. from Atar, Mauritania. The only erg or sand sea in Western Sahara is located nearby, where it runs from south-west to north-east from Mauritania into Western Sahara and back into Mauritania, where the border forms a right angle.- Type: Hamlet with 833 residents
- Description: municipality and town in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “Az Zuk”, “Zoug”, “Zug, Western Sahara”, “Zuk”, “زوڭ”, and “زوگ”
- Address: زوك
Zug
- Categories: municipality, town, and locality
- Location: Western Sahara, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.61328° or 21° 36′ 48″ north
Longitude
-14.1477° or 14° 8′ 52″ west
Population
833
Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)
Open location code
7CH7JV72+8W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Zug” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزوك”
- Arabic: “زوك”
- Catalan: “Zug”
- Cebuano: “Zoug (munisipyo sa Maruwekos)”
- Cebuano: “Zoug”
- Chinese: “楚格”
- Chinese: “祖格”
- Dutch: “Zoug”
- Esperanto: “Zug”
- Estonian: “Zoug”
- Estonian: “Zoûg”
- French: “Zoug”
- German: “Az-Zuk”
- German: “Zug”
- German: “Zuk”
- Hindi: “ज़ूग”
- Hungarian: “Zug, Western Sahara”
- Italian: “Zoug”
- Japanese: “ゾウグ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الزوگ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الزوݣ”
- Persian: “زوک (صحرای غربی)”
- Persian: “زوک”
- Portuguese: “Zoug”
- Slovenian: “Zug”
- South Azerbaijani: “زوک (باتی صحرا)”
- South Azerbaijani: “زوک”
- Spanish: “Sug”
- Spanish: “Zoug”
- Spanish: “Zoûg”
- Spanish: “Zug”
- Swahili: “Zug, Sahara ya Magharibi”
- Swedish: “Zug, Västsahara”
- Swedish: “Zug”
- Tatar: “Зуг”
- Ukrainian: “Аз Зуг”
- Ukrainian: “Аз Зук”
- Ukrainian: “Зуг”
- Ukrainian: “Зук”
- Ukrainian: “Цуг”
- Urdu: “زوک، مغربی صحارا”
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