Dirkou
Dirkou is a town in the Bilma Department, Agadez Region of north-eastern Niger. It lies in the northern Kaouar escarpment, a north–south line of cliffs which form an isolated oasis in the Sahara desert.- Town with about 10,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 480 metres (1,570 feet)
- Description: municipality in Bilma Department, Niger
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Latitude
19.00252° or 19° 0′ 9″ north
Longitude
12.8937° or 12° 53′ 37″ east
Open location code
7FFJ2V3V+2F
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Dirkou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديركو”
- Bulgarian: “Диркоу”
- Catalan: “Dirkou”
- Cebuano: “Dirkou”
- Chinese: “迪尔库”
- Dutch: “Dirkou”
- Esperanto: “Dirkou”
- Finnish: “Dirkou”
- French: “Dirkou”
- German: “Dirkou”
- Hausa: “Dirku”
- Italian: “Dirkou”
- Japanese: “ディルク”
- Luxembourgish: “Dirkou”
- Malay: “Dirkou”
- Romanian: “Dirkou”
- Spanish: “Dirkou”
- Turkish: “Dirkou”
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