Chinguetti

Chinguetti is a city in . It contains a noted Islamic scholarly centre sometimes called the library in the desert and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  • Type: City with 4,710 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Changuit”, “Chinguetti شنقيط”, “Chinguetty”, “Chinguitti”, “Cinguetti”, “Czinguetti”, “Schinguete”, “Singuyty”, “Szinkitti”, and “شينغيتي”
  • Address: Chinguetti شنقيط

Chinguetti

Latitude
20.4634° or 20° 27′ 48″ north
Longitude
-12.3665° or 12° 21′ 59″ west
Population
4,710
Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)
IATA airport code
CGT
Open location code
7CG9FJ7M+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 330514595
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2380519
Wiki­data ID
Q312357
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Chinguetti” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شنقيط”
  • Asturian: “Chinguetti”
  • Basque: “Chinguetti”
  • Bulgarian: “Шинкит”
  • Catalan: “Chinguiti”
  • Cebuano: “Chingueṭṭi”
  • Chinese: “欣蓋提”
  • Danish: “Chinguetti”
  • Dutch: “Chinguetti”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شنقيط”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉingetti”
  • Finnish: “Chinguetti”
  • French: “Chinguetti”
  • Galician: “Antigo ksar de Chinguetti”
  • Georgian: “შინგეტი”
  • German: “Chinguetti”
  • Hebrew: “שינגטי”
  • Hindi: “शिनगेती”
  • Icelandic: “Chinguetti”
  • Irish: “Chinguetti”
  • Italian: “Chinguetti”
  • 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: “Šingetis”
  • Malay: “Chinguetti”
  • Nepali: “चिङ्गुएति”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinguetti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chinguetti”
  • Norwegian: “Chinguetti”
  • Persian: “شنقیط”
  • Polish: “Szinkit”
  • Portuguese: “Chingueti”
  • Portuguese: “Chinguetti”
  • Romanian: “Chinguetti”
  • Russian: “Чингетти”
  • Russian: “Шингетти”
  • Spanish: “Chingueti”
  • Swedish: “Chinguetti”
  • Tumbuka: “Chinguetti”
  • Turkish: “Chinguetti”
  • Turkish: “Şinkit”
  • Turkish: “Şinkıt”
  • Ukrainian: “Шингетті”
  • Ukrainian: “Шинґетті”
  • Urdu: “شنقیط”

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