Gao Cercle

Gao Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the of north-eastern . The administrative center is the town of . During the Northern Mali conflict in 2012, the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad lost the region to the Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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Gao Cercle

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Latitude
16.7224° or 16° 43′ 21″ north
Longitude
0.4398° or 0° 26′ 23″ east
Open location code
7F82PCCQ+WW
Geo­Names ID
7670553
Wiki­data ID
Q1493783

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In Other Languages

From Bambara to Swedish—“Gao Cercle” goes by many names.
  • Bambara: “Gàwó”
  • Cebuano: “Gao Cercle”
  • Chinese: “加奧省”
  • Dutch: “Gao Cercle”
  • Dutch: “Gao”
  • Finnish: “Gaon piiri”
  • French: “Cercle de Gao (Mali)”
  • French: “Cercle de Gao”
  • German: “Gao (Kreis)”
  • German: “Gao”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Γκαό”
  • Italian: “circondario di Gao”
  • Italian: “Circondario di Gao”
  • Japanese: “ガオ圏”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gao Khian”
  • Persian: “حلقه گائو”
  • Russian: “Гао (округ)”
  • Russian: “Гао”
  • Spanish: “Círculo de Gao”
  • Swedish: “Gao”

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