Tintane
Tintane is a town and commune in Mauritania. It is located in the Hodh El Gharbi region of Mauritania, and is an important stop on the "Road of Hope", the largest and most important road in Mauritania, which links Nouakchott to Néma.
- Type: City with 15,700 residents
- Description: city in Mauritania
- Also known as: “Ṭinṭâne”, “Tintane طينطان”, and “الطينطان”
Tintane
- Categories: commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.39543° or 16° 23′ 44″ north
Longitude
-10.16733° or 10° 10′ 2″ west
Population
15,700
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
Open location code
7C8F9RWM+53
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Tintane” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طينطان”
- Corsican: “Tintane”
- Dutch: “Tintane”
- French: “Tintane”
- German: “Tintane”
- Italian: “Tintane”
- Lithuanian: “Tintanas”
- Malay: “Tintane”
- Polish: “Tintan”
- Romanian: “Tintane”
- Russian: “Тинтан”
- Sardinian: “Tintane”
- Sassarese Sardinian: “Tintane”
- Spanish: “Tintane”
- Swahili: “Tintane”
- Turkish: “Tintane”
- Urdu: “طینطان”
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