Nouakchott Airport
Nouakchott International Airport was an airport located in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. It closed in June 2016 upon the opening of Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, 25 kilometres north of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: airport in Nouakchott, Mauritania
- Also known as: “GQNN”, “Nouakchott International Airport”, and “Nouakchott Old Airport”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Museum of Mauritania and National Library of Mauritania.
National Museum of Mauritania
Museum
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Museum of Mauritania, also known as the National Museum of Nouakchott, is a national museum in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It is located to the southwest of the Hotel Mercure Marhaba, west of Hotel de Ville, northwest of Parc Deydouh, and northeast of the Mosque Ould Abbas. National Museum of Mauritania is situated 3 km southwest of Nouakchott Airport.
National Library of Mauritania
Library
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de Mauritanie is located in Nouakchott, Mauritania in the building of the National Museum of Mauritania. The library has a collection of 10,000 volumes and employs 41 staff members. The library has seven branches. National Library of Mauritania is situated 3 km southwest of Nouakchott Airport.
G5 Sahel
Government office
G5 Sahel or G5S was an institutional framework for coordination of regional cooperation in development policies and security matters in West Africa. It was created on 16 February 2014 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, at a summit of five Sahel countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. G5 Sahel is situated 3½ km west of Nouakchott Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ksar and Dar Naïm.
Ksar
Suburb
Ksar, Mauritania is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It has a population of 43,531.
Dar Naïm
Town
Dar-Naim is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It is the capital of Nouakchott-Nord Region and has a population of 186,925. Dar Naïm is situated 3½ km northeast of Nouakchott Airport.
Nouakchott
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Nouakchott is the capital of Mauritania and its largest city, with almost 1.2 million residents in 2019. The city is the hub of the Mauritanian economy and is home to a deepwater port and Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, one of the country's two international airports.
Nouakchott Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Trarza, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nouakchott Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار نواكشوط الدوليt”
- Arabic: “مطار نواكشوط القديم”
- Cebuano: “Nouakchott (tugpahanan)”
- Cebuano: “Nouakchott”
- Chinese: “努瓦克肖特国际机场”
- Chinese: “努瓦克肖特國際機場”
- Dutch: “Internationale luchthaven van Nouakchott”
- Dutch: “Nouakchott International Airport”
- Finnish: “Nouakchottin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
- French: “Aéroport de Nouakchott”
- French: “ancien aéroport de Nouakchott”
- French: “Ancien aéroport international de Nouakchott”
- French: “GQNN”
- German: “Flughafen Nouakchott”
- German: “früherer Flughafen Nouakchott”
- German: “GQNN”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Nouakchott”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Nouakchott”
- Indonesian: “GQNN”
- Indonesian: “NKC”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Nouakchott”
- Italian: “Nouakchott International Airport”
- Japanese: “NKC”
- Japanese: “ヌアクショット空港”
- Korean: “누악쇼트 국제공항”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Nouakchott”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “GQNN”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “NKC”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nouakchott internasjonale lufthavn”
- Norwegian: “Nouakchott internasjonale lufthavn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بین المللی نواکشوت”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی نواکشوت”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Nawakszut”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Nouakchott Old”
- Russian: “Нуакшот”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Nouakchott”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Nouakchott”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Nuakchot”
- Spanish: “GQNN”
- Spanish: “NKC”
- Swedish: “Nouakchott flygplats”
- Swedish: “Nouakchotts flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи байналмиллалии Нуакшот”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ нуокшут”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Nouakchott”
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