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Ad Dakhla

Dakhla is a city in the disputed territory of , currently occupied by . It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region .
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  • Type: City with 165,000 residents
  • Description: city in Western Sahara
  • Also known as: “Ad - Dakhla”, “Dakhla”, “Dakhla, Western Sahara”, and “Dakhlah”
  • Historically known as: “Factoria Villa Cisneros”, “Villa Cisneras”, and “Villa Cisneros”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Our Lady of Carmen.

Church
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The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church alternatively Church of Dakhla or simply Church of Villa Cisneros is a Roman Catholic located in the town of Dakhla located in the territory of in dispute with and is considered by the latter nation as part of the region of Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab.

Ad Dakhla

Latitude
23.6941° or 23° 41′ 39″ north
Longitude
-15.9431° or 15° 56′ 35″ west
Population
165,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
VIL
United Nations Location Codes
EH VIC and MA VIL
Open location code
7CM6M3V4+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 348237703
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2463447
Wiki­data ID
Q345204
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ad Dakhla” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الداخلة”
  • Arabic: “جماعة الداخلة”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “דאח’לה”
  • Hindi: “दाखला”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ad Dakhla”. Photo: YoTuT, CC BY 2.0.