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.
- Type: City with 32,300 residents
- Description: city in Mauritania
- Also known as: “Aţār”, “Aṭār”, “Atar أطار”, “Atar, Mauritania”, and “الأطار”
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″ north
Longitude
-13.0544° or 13° 3′ 16″ west
Population
32,300
Elevation
192 metres (630 feet)
IATA airport code
ATR
UN/LOCODE
MR ATR
Open location code
7CG8GW9W+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Atar” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አታር”
- Arabic: “أطار”
- 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”
- Greek: “Ατάρ”
- Gujarati: “એટાર”
- Hausa: “Atar”
- Hebrew: “אטאר”
- Hindi: “अतार”
- Hungarian: “Atar”
- Icelandic: “Atar”
- Indonesian: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Indonesian: “Atar”
- Italian: “Atar”
- Japanese: “アタール”
- Javanese: “Atar”
- Kabyle: “Aṭar”
- Kannada: “ಅಟಾರ್”
- Kazakh: “Атар”
- Kirghiz: “Атар”
- Korean: “아타르”
- Latvian: “Atāra”
- Lithuanian: “Ataras”
- Malay: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Malay: “Atar”
- Marathi: “अतार”
- Northern Frisian: “Atar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atar”
- Norwegian: “Atar”
- Oromo: “Atar”
- Panjabi: “ਅਤਾਰ”
- Persian: “اطار”
- Polish: “Atar”
- Portuguese: “Atar”
- Pushto: “آتار”
- Romanian: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Romanian: “Atar”
- Russian: “Атар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atar, Mauritanija”
- Sinhala: “, අටාර්”
- Somali: “Atar”
- Spanish: “Atar”
- Swahili: “Atar, Mauritania”
- Swahili: “Atar”
- Swedish: “Atar, Mauretanien”
- Swedish: “Atar”
- Tajik: “Атар”
- Tamil: “அடார்”
- Tatar: “Атар”
- Telugu: “అత్తార్”
- Thai: “อทาร์”
- Turkish: “Atar, Moritanya”
- Turkish: “Atar”
- Ukrainian: “Атар”
- Urdu: “آتار”
- Urdu: “اطار، موریتانیہ”
- Uzbek: “Atar”
- Vietnamese: “Atar”
- Yue Chinese: “阿塔爾 (毛里塔尼亞)”
- Yue Chinese: “阿塔爾”
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Places to explore: Mnâçîr and El Beououâl.
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