Gao
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Gao is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region. The city is located on the River Niger, 320 km east-southeast of Timbuktu on the left bank at the junction with the Tilemsi valley.
Gao
- Type: region of Mali with 544,000 residents
- Description: region of Mali
- Also known as: “Gao Region”, “Region VII”, and “Seventh Region”
- Location: Mali, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Gao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة غاو”
- Arabic: “منطقة جاو”
- Arabic: “منطقة كاغو”
- Arabic: “منطقه غاو”
- Azerbaijani: “Qao (bölgə)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qao”
- Bambara: “Gàwó”
- Basque: “Gao eskualdea”
- Basque: “Gaoko eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Гао”
- Bengali: “গাও অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Гао”
- Catalan: “Gao”
- Cebuano: “Gao Region”
- Chinese: “Gao Khu”
- Chinese: “加奥区”
- Chinese: “加奥地区”
- Chinese: “加奧區”
- Danish: “Gao”
- Dutch: “Gao”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Gao”
- Estonian: “Gao piirkond”
- Finnish: “Gaon alue”
- French: “Gao”
- French: “Région de Gao”
- Georgian: “გაოს რეგიონი”
- German: “ML-7”
- German: “Region Gao”
- Greek: “Γκαό”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Γκαό”
- Gujarati: “ગાઓ પ્રદેશ”
- Hindi: “गाओ क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Gao régió”
- Indonesian: “Region Gao”
- Italian: “regione di Gao”
- Italian: “Regione di Gao”
- Japanese: “ガオ州”
- Kannada: “ಗಾವೊ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “가오주”
- Latvian: “Gao reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Gao regionas”
- Low German: “Region Gao”
- Malay: “Gao Region”
- Marathi: “गाओ प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gao Khu”
- N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߊ߬ߏ߫ ߕߌ߲߬ߞߎߘߎ߲”
- N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߊ߬ߏ߫”
- Northern Frisian: “Gao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gao”
- Norwegian: “Gao”
- Persian: “استان گائو”
- Polish: “Region Gao”
- Portuguese: “Gao”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Gao”
- Russian: “Гао”
- Sinhala: “ගාඕ කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Gao”
- Slovenian: “Regija Gao”
- South Azerbaijani: “قائو اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Gao”
- Spanish: “Región de Gao”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Gao”
- Swedish: “Gao”
- Tamil: “காவோ பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Гао төбәге”
- Telugu: “గావ్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “แคว้นกาโอ”
- Turkish: “Gao Belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Gao Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Gao”
- Ukrainian: “Гао”
- Urdu: “Gao Region”
- Urdu: “ریجن گاو”
- Urdu: “علاقہ گاو”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Gao”
- Wu Chinese: “加奥区”
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