Atar
Atar is a town of 25,000 people in Saharan Mauritania. It is a great base for exploring the Adrar region, and tends to be slightly cheaper overall than Chinguetti. The Atar Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in the country, dates from 1674.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 32,300 residents
- Description: city in Mauritania
- Also known as: “Aţār” and “Atar, Mauritania”
Atar
- Categories: commune of Mauritania and locality
- Location: Adrar Region, Saharan Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.5182° or 20° 31′ 6″ northLongitude
-13.0544° or 13° 3′ 16″ westPopulation
32,300Elevation
192 metres (630 feet)IATA airport code
ATRUnited Nations Location Code
MR ATROpen location code
7CG8GW9W+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 330511654OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2381334Wikidata ID
Q735645
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Atar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أطار”
- Arabic: “اطار”
- Arabic: “الأطار”
- Asturian: “Atar”
- Azerbaijani: “Atar”
- Basque: “Atar”
- Belarusian: “Атар”
- Bengali: “আতার”
- Catalan: “Atar”
- Cebuano: “Atar”
- Chinese: “阿塔尔”
- Chinese: “阿塔爾”
- Czech: “Atâr”
- Danish: “Atar”
- Dutch: “Atar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اطار”
- Esperanto: “Atar”
- Finnish: “Atar”
- French: “Atar”
- German: “Atar”
- German: “Aṭār”
- Greek: “Ατάρ”
- Gujarati: “એટાર”
- Hebrew: “אטאר”
- Hindi: “अटर”
- Hungarian: “Atar”
- Icelandic: “Atar”
- Indonesian: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Indonesian: “Atar”
- Italian: “Atar”
- Japanese: “アタール”
- Kabyle: “Aṭar”
- Kannada: “ಅಟಾರ್”
- Korean: “아타르”
- Latvian: “Atāra”
- Lithuanian: “Ataras”
- Malay: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Malay: “Atar”
- Marathi: “अतार”
- Northern Frisian: “Atar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atar”
- Norwegian: “Atar”
- Persian: “اطار”
- Polish: “Atar”
- Portuguese: “Atar”
- Romanian: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Romanian: “Atar”
- Russian: “Атар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atar, Mauritanija”
- Sinhala: “, අටාර්”
- Spanish: “Atar”
- Swahili: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Swedish: “Atar, Mauretanien”
- Swedish: “Atar”
- Tamil: “அடார்”
- Telugu: “అత్తార్”
- Thai: “อทาร์”
- Turkish: “Atar, Moritanya”
- Turkish: “Atar”
- Ukrainian: “Атар”
- Urdu: “اطار، موریتانیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Atar”
- Yue Chinese: “阿塔爾 (毛里塔尼亞)”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Atar”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.