Ad Dakhla
Dakhla is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and has been occupied by Morocco since 1979. It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab.
- City with 165,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code VIL
- Description: city in Western Sahara
- Also known as“Dakhla”“Dakhla ⴷⴷⴰⵅⵍⴰ الداخلة”“Dakhla, Western Sahara”“Dakhlah”
- Historically known as“Factoria Villa Cisneros”“Villa Cisneras”“Villa Cisneros”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Our Lady of Carmen.
Church of Our Lady of Carmen
Church
The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church alternatively…
Ad Dakhla
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Latitude
23.6941° or 23° 41′ 39″ north
Longitude
-15.9431° or 15° 56′ 35″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ad Dakhla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الداخلة”
- Arabic: “جماعة الداخلة”
- Aragonese: “Dakhla”
- Asturian: “Dakhla”
- Basque: “Dakhla”
- Bengali: “দাখলা”
- Bulgarian: “Дахла”
- Catalan: “Dajla”
- Catalan: “Dakhla”
- Catalan: “Villa Cisneros”
- Cebuano: “Dakhla”
- Chinese: “达克拉”
- Chinese: “达赫拉”
- Chinese: “達克拉”
- Chinese: “達赫拉”
- Czech: “Dachla”
- Danish: “Dakhla”
- Danish: “Villa Cisneros”
- Dutch: “Dakhla”
- Dutch: “Villa Cisneros”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة الداخله”
- Esperanto: “Daĥlo”
- Estonian: “Ad-Dakhlah”
- Estonian: “Ad-Dākhlah”
- Estonian: “Ed Dakhla”
- Estonian: “Ed Dâkhla”
- Estonian: “Villa Cisneros”
- Finnish: “Dakhla”
- French: “Ad Dakhla”
- French: “Dakhla”
- French: “Villa Cisneros”
- Galician: “Dakhla”
- Galician: “Villa Cisneros”
- German: “Ad Dakhla”
- German: “Ad-Dachla”
- German: “Ad-Dakhla”
- German: “Dakhla”
- German: “Villa Cisneros”
- Greek: “Ντάxλα”
- Greek: “Ντάχλα”
- Gujarati: “દખલા”
- Hausa: “Dakhla, Yammacin Sahara”
- Hebrew: “דאח’לה”
- Hindi: “दाख़ला”
- Hungarian: “Dakhla”
- Ido: “Dakhla”
- Indonesian: “Dakhla”
- Irish: “Dakhla”
- Italian: “Dakhla”
- Italian: “Villa Cisneros”
- Japanese: “ダクラ”
- Japanese: “ダフラ”
- Japanese: “ビリャシスネロス”
- Kannada: “ದಖ್ಲಾ”
- Korean: “다클라”
- Latin: “Cisneropolis”
- Latvian: “Dahla”
- Lithuanian: “Ad Dachla”
- Lithuanian: “Dachla”
- Lithuanian: “Dahla”
- Macedonian: “Дахла”
- Macedonian: “ед-Дахла”
- Malay: “Dakhla, Sahara Barat”
- Marathi: “दखला”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الداخلة”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dakhla”
- Persian: “داخله”
- Polish: “Ad-Dachla”
- Polish: “Villa Cisneros”
- Portuguese: “Dajla”
- Portuguese: “Dakhla (Saara Ocidental)”
- Portuguese: “Dakhla”
- Portuguese: “Villa Cisneros”
- Russian: “Вилла-Киснерос”
- Russian: “Вилья-Сиснерос”
- Russian: “Дахла”
- Serbian: “Дахла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dakhla”
- Sinhala: “ඩක්ලා”
- Slovak: “Dachla (Západná Sahara)”
- Slovak: “Dachla”
- Slovenian: “Dakhla”
- Slovenian: “Dakla”
- South Azerbaijani: “داخله”
- Spanish: “Ad dajla”
- Spanish: “Ad Dajla”
- Spanish: “Ad-Dajla”
- Spanish: “Dajla”
- Spanish: “Dakhla”
- Spanish: “Villa Cisneros”
- Spanish: “Villacisneros”
- Swedish: “ad-Dakhla”
- Swedish: “al-Dakhla”
- Swedish: “Al-Dakhla”
- Tachelhit: “Ddaxla”
- Tamil: “டஹ்லா”
- Telugu: “డాఖ్లా”
- Thai: “ดักค์ลา”
- Turkish: “Dahile”
- Turkish: “Dakhla”
- Ukrainian: “Дахла”
- Urdu: “داخلہ، مغربی صحارا”
- Venetian: “Dakhla”
- Vietnamese: “Dakhla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dakhla”
- Welsh: “Ad-Dakhla”
- Welsh: “Dakhla, Gorllewin Sahara”
- Welsh: “Dakhla”
- Welsh: “Villa Cisneros”
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