Niger
Northern Niger
Agadez

Agadez

Agadez, formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in , with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census. The capital of the eponymous , the city lies in the Sahara desert, and is also the capital of Aïr, one of the traditional Tuareg–Berber federations.
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  • Type: City with 124,000 residents
  • Description: urban commune in Niger
  • Also known as: “Agades” and “Agadès”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mano Dayak International Airport and Agadez Mosque.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an airport in Agadez in the Sahara desert in . It is named after Mano Dayak, a Tuareg leader.

Mosque
Photo: Dan Lundberg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a prominent in Agadez, , . It was made of clay and is the tallest mud-brick structure in the world.

Agadez

Latitude
16.9726° or 16° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
7.9907° or 7° 59′ 27″ east
Population
124,000
Elevation
505 metres (1,657 feet)
IATA airport code
AJY
United Nations Location Code
NE AJY
Open location code
7F89XXFR+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 277867792
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2448085
Wiki­data ID
Q320049
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Agadez” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أغاديز”
  • Arabic: “أغاديس”
  • Asturian: “Agadez”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aqadez”
  • Basque: “Agadez”
  • Belarusian: “Агадэс”
  • Bengali: “আগাডেজ”
  • Breton: “Agadez”
  • Catalan: “Agadès”
  • Catalan: “Agadez”
  • 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: “Agades”
  • French: “Agadès”
  • French: “Agadez”
  • Georgian: “აგადესი”
  • German: “Agades”
  • German: “Agadès”
  • German: “Agadez”
  • Greek: “Αγκαντέζ”
  • Gujarati: “અગાડેઝ”
  • Hausa: “Agadas”
  • Hausa: “Agades”
  • Hausa: “Agadez”
  • Hebrew: “אגדז”
  • Hindi: “अगाडेज़”
  • Hungarian: “Agadez”
  • Indonesian: “Agadez”
  • Italian: “Agadès”
  • Italian: “Agadez”
  • Japanese: “アガデス”
  • Japanese: “アガデズ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಗಡೆಜ್”
  • Korean: “아가데즈”
  • Kotava: “Agadez”
  • Latin: “Agades”
  • Latvian: “Agadesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Agadesas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Agadez”
  • Malay: “Agadez”
  • Maltese: “Agades”
  • Maltese: “Agadès”
  • Maltese: “Agadez”
  • Marathi: “अगाडेझ”
  • Mingrelian: “აგადესი”
  • Nepali: “अगादेज”
  • Northern Frisian: “Agadez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Agadez”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agades”
  • Norwegian: “Agadez”
  • Persian: “اغادیز”
  • Polish: “Agades”
  • Polish: “Agadez”
  • Portuguese: “Agadès”
  • Portuguese: “Agadez”
  • Portuguese: “Agadèz”
  • Romanian: “Agadez”
  • Russian: “Агадес”
  • Scots: “Agadez”
  • Serbian: “Agadez”
  • Serbian: “Агадез”
  • Serbian: “Агадес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Agadez”
  • Sinhala: “අගදෙස්”
  • Slovenian: “Agadez”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اغادیز”
  • Spanish: “Agades”
  • Spanish: “Agadés”
  • Spanish: “Agadez”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵣ”
  • Swahili: “Agadez”
  • Swedish: “Agadez”
  • Tamil: “அகாடேஸ்”
  • Telugu: “అగాడెజ్”
  • Thai: “อักาดีย์”
  • Turkish: “Agadez”
  • Tyap: “Agades”
  • Tyap: “Agadez”
  • Tyap: “A̱ga̱di̱t”
  • Ukrainian: “Агадес”
  • Urdu: “اگادیز”
  • Vietnamese: “Agadez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Agadez”
  • “Agadez”

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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 “Agadez”. Photo: Dan Lundberg, CC BY-SA 2.0.