Chinguetti
Chinguetti is a city in Saharan Mauritania. It contains a noted Islamic scholarly centre sometimes called the library in the desert and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mohamed Natti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 4,710 residents
- Description: human settlement in Mauritania
- Address: Chinguetti شنقيط
Chinguetti
- Categories: human settlement, commune of Mauritania, and locality
- Location: Adrar Region, Saharan Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.4634° or 20° 27′ 48″ northLongitude
-12.3665° or 12° 21′ 59″ westPopulation
4,710Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)IATA airport code
CGTOpen location code
7CG9FJ7M+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 330514595OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Chinguetti” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شنقيط”
- Arabic: “شينغيتي”
- Asturian: “Chinguetti”
- Basque: “Chinguetti”
- Bulgarian: “Шинкит”
- Catalan: “Chinguetti”
- Catalan: “Chinguiti”
- Cebuano: “Chingueṭṭi”
- Chinese: “欣蓋提”
- Danish: “Chinguetti”
- Dutch: “Chinguetti”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شنقيط”
- Esperanto: “Ĉingetti”
- Finnish: “Chinguetti”
- French: “Chinguetti”
- French: “Chinguitti”
- Georgian: “შინგეტი”
- German: “Changuit”
- German: “Chingueti”
- German: “Chinguetti”
- German: “Chinguetty”
- German: “Schinguete”
- German: “Singuyty”
- Hebrew: “שינגטי”
- Icelandic: “Chinguetti”
- Irish: “Chinguetti”
- Italian: “Chinguetti”
- Italian: “Cinguetti”
- Japanese: “シンゲッティ”
- Kabyle: “Cengiṭ”
- Kazakh: “Şïngettï qalası”
- Kazakh: “Шингетти қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Шингетти”
- Kazakh: “شىينگەتتىي قالاسى”
- Kotava: “Chinguetti”
- Latvian: “Šingeti”
- Lithuanian: “Chingueti”
- Lithuanian: “Šingetis”
- Malay: “Chinguetti”
- Nepali: “चिङ्गुएति”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinguetti”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chinguetti”
- Norwegian: “Chinguetti”
- Persian: “شنقیط”
- Polish: “Chinguetti”
- Polish: “Czinguetti”
- Polish: “Szinkit”
- Polish: “Szinkitti”
- Portuguese: “Chingueti”
- Portuguese: “Chinguetti”
- Romanian: “Chinguetti”
- Russian: “Чингетти”
- Russian: “Шингетти”
- Spanish: “Chingueti”
- Swedish: “Chinguetti”
- Turkish: “Chinguetti”
- Turkish: “Şinkit”
- Turkish: “Şinkıt”
- Ukrainian: “Шингетті”
- Ukrainian: “Шинґетті”
- Urdu: “شنقیط”
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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 “Chinguetti”. Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.