Agadez
Agadez, formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census. The capital of the eponymous Agadez Region, the city lies in the Sahara desert, and is also the capital of the Sultanate of Agadez, one of the traditional Tuareg–Berber federations.
- City with about 110,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 520 metres (1,710 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code AJY
- …is also known as “Agadès”
- Description: urban commune in Niger
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agadez Mosque and Mano Dayak International Airport.
Agadez Mosque
Agadez Mosque is a prominent mosque in Agadez, Tchirozerine Department, Niger.
Mano Dayak International Airport
Mano Dayak International Airport is an airport in Agadez in the Sahara desert in Niger.
Agadez
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Latitude
16.9726° or 16° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
7.9907° or 7° 59′ 27″ east
UN/LOCODE
NE AJY
Open location code
7F89XXFR+27
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Agadez” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አጋዴዝ”
- Arabic: “أغاديز”
- Arabic: “أغاديس”
- Asturian: “Agadez”
- Azerbaijani: “Agadez”
- Azerbaijani: “Aqadez”
- Basque: “Agadez”
- Belarusian: “Агадэс”
- Bengali: “আগাডেজ”
- Breton: “Agadez”
- Catalan: “Agadès”
- Catalan: “Agadèz”
- Cebuano: “Agadez”
- Central Kanuri: “Agadez”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەگادیز”
- Chinese: “阿加德兹”
- Chinese: “阿加德茲”
- Croatian: “Agades”
- Croatian: “Agadez”
- Czech: “Agadez”
- Dagbani: “Agadez”
- Danish: “Agadez”
- Dutch: “Agadez”
- Esperanto: “Agadez”
- Esperanto: “Agadezo”
- Estonian: “Agadez”
- Finnish: “Agades”
- Finnish: “Agadez”
- French: “Agadès”
- French: “Agadez”
- Galician: “Agadez”
- Georgian: “აგადესი”
- German: “Agadès”
- German: “Agadez”
- Greek: “Αγκαντέζ”
- Gujarati: “અગાડેઝ”
- Hausa: “Agadas”
- Hausa: “Agades”
- Hausa: “Agadez”
- Hebrew: “אגדז”
- Hindi: “अगादेज़”
- Hungarian: “Agadez”
- Indonesian: “Agadez”
- Italian: “Agadès”
- Italian: “Agadez”
- Japanese: “アガデス”
- Javanese: “Agadez”
- Kannada: “ಅಗಡೆಜ್”
- Kazakh: “Агадес”
- Kirghiz: “Агадес”
- Korean: “아가데즈”
- Kotava: “Agadez”
- Latin: “Agades”
- Latvian: “Agadesa”
- Lithuanian: “Agadesas”
- Luxembourgish: “Agadez”
- Malay: “Agadez”
- Maltese: “Agadès”
- Maltese: “Agadez”
- Marathi: “अगाडेझ”
- Mingrelian: “აგადესი”
- Nepali: “अगादेज”
- Northern Frisian: “Agadez”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Agadez”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agades”
- Norwegian: “Agadez”
- Oromo: “Agadez”
- Panjabi: “ਅਗਾਦੇਜ਼”
- Persian: “آگادز”
- Persian: “اغادیز”
- Polish: “Agades”
- Polish: “Agadez”
- Portuguese: “Agadès”
- Portuguese: “Agadèz”
- Pushto: “اگاديز”
- Romanian: “Agadez”
- Russian: “Агадес”
- Scots: “Agadez”
- Serbian: “Agadez”
- Serbian: “Агадез”
- Serbian: “Агадес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Agadez”
- Sinhala: “අගදෙස්”
- Slovenian: “Agadez”
- Somali: “Agadez”
- South Azerbaijani: “اغادیز”
- Spanish: “Agadés”
- Spanish: “Agadez”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵣ”
- Swahili: “Agadez”
- Swedish: “Agadez”
- Tajik: “Агадез”
- Tamil: “அகாடேஸ்”
- Tatar: “Агадез”
- Telugu: “అగాడెజ్”
- Thai: “อักาดีย์”
- Turkish: “Agadez”
- Tyap: “Agades”
- Tyap: “Agadez”
- Tyap: “A̱ga̱di̱t”
- Ukrainian: “Агадес”
- Urdu: “اگادیز”
- Uzbek: “Agadez”
- Vietnamese: “Agadez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Agadez”
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