Chinguity
Chinguetti is a department of the Adrar Region in Mauritania. The capital lies at Chinguetti, an ex-Middle Ages center for trade which is considered to be a ghost town. The other village in this mostly desert-area department is Ain Savra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Mauritania
- Description: department of Mauritania
- Also known as: “Chinguetti Department”
Chinguity
- Location: Adrar Region, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Chinguity” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة شنقيط”
- Cebuano: “Chinguetti (departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Chinguetti”
- Dutch: “Chinguetti Department”
- French: “département de Chinguetti”
- French: “Département de Chinguetti”
- German: “Chinguetti, Département”
- German: “Chinguetti”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Chinguetti”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Chinguetti”
- Japanese: “シンゲッティ県”
- Lithuanian: “Šingečio departamentas”
- Persian: “دپارتمان شنقیط”
- Russian: “Шингетти (департамент)”
- Russian: “Шингетти”
- Spanish: “Chingueti”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Chingueti”
- Swedish: “Chinguetti”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dahr Chingueṭṭi and Chinguetti.
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