Mauritania
Saharan Mauritania
Adrar Region

Choum

Choum is a tiny railway stop in the Adrar Region of Northern 5 km from the straight-line demarcated border with the that runs due west-east at this point before turning south-north 12 km to the east.
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  • Type: Town with 5,000 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Address: شوم

Choum

Latitude
21.2987° or 21° 17′ 55″ north
Longitude
-13.0672° or 13° 4′ 2″ west
Population
5,000
Elevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)
Open location code
7CH87WXM+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2583960715
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2597435
Wiki­data ID
Q2660853
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Choum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شوم”
  • Belarusian: “Шум”
  • Chinese: “舒姆”
  • Dutch: “Choum”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝum”
  • French: “Choum”
  • French: “Choûm”
  • German: “Choum”
  • German: “Schum”
  • Italian: “Choum”
  • Japanese: “チューム”
  • Lithuanian: “Šumas (Mauritanija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Šumas”
  • Malay: “Choum”
  • Polish: “Choum”
  • Polish: “Szum”
  • Portuguese: “Choum”
  • Romanian: “Choum, Mauritania”
  • Romanian: “Choum”
  • Russian: “Choum”
  • Russian: “Шум”
  • Spanish: “Choum”
  • Ukrainian: “Шум”

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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 “Choum”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.