Arafat
Arafat is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It is the capital of Nouakchott-Sud Region and had a population of 216,919 in 2023.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: Commune of Mauritania
- Also known as: “Arafat, Mauritania”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riyad and Nouakchott.
Riyad
Suburb
Riyad is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It had a population of 117,030 in 2013, up from 42,413 in 2000. Riyad is situated 4 km south of Arafat.
Nouakchott
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nouakchott is the capital of Mauritania and its largest city, with almost 1.2 million residents in 2019. The city is the hub of the Mauritanian economy and is home to a deepwater port and Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, one of the country's two international airports.
Sebkha
Suburb
Sebkha is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It has a population of 72,245. The football teams ASC Nasr de Sebkha and ASC Socogim are based there. Sebkha is situated 5 km northwest of Arafat.
Arafat
- Categories: commune of Mauritania, department of Mauritania, city district, and locality
- Location: Arafat, Nouakchott-Sud region, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
18.04595° or 18° 2′ 45″ northLongitude
-15.96328° or 15° 57′ 48″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
7CC622WP+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 4506712358OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Arafat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عرفات”
- Cebuano: “Arafat”
- Chinese: “阿拉法特”
- French: “Arafat”
- French: “Araffat”
- Galician: “Arafat”
- German: “Arafat”
- Hebrew: “ערפאת”
- Italian: “Arafat (Mauritania)”
- Italian: “Arafat”
- Japanese: “アラファト (ヌアクショット)”
- Japanese: “アラファト”
- Malay: “Arafat, Mauritania”
- Northern Frisian: “Arafat (Steed uun Mauretaanien)”
- Northern Frisian: “Arafat”
- Persian: “عرفات (نواکشوت)”
- Persian: “عرفات”
- Romanian: “Araffat”
- Russian: “Арафат”
- Spanish: “Arafat”
- Swedish: “Arafat”
- Swedish: “Araffat”
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