Gao Cercle
Gao Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Gao Region of north-eastern Mali. The administrative center is the town of Gao. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Gao Cercle
- Type: cercle of Mali with 240,000 residents
- Description: cercle of Mali
- Location: Gao, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Bambara to Swedish—“Gao Cercle” goes by many names.
- Bambara: “Gàwó”
- Cebuano: “Gao Cercle”
- Chinese: “Gao Khian”
- 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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