Ghadamis
Ghadamis also known as Ghadames is an oasis town in Libya. The old part of the town is inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List.- Type: City with 10,000 residents
- Description: oasis
- Also known as: “antiga cidade de Gadamés”, “Cydamus”, “Gademes”, “Ghadames”, “Ghdamès”, “Ghudamis”, “Ghudāmis”, “Pearl of the Desert”, “Rhadames”, “Sidamas”, “Гадамис”, “غدامس، لیبی”, “ⵖⴷⴰⵎⵙ”, “ⵖⴷⴰⵎⵙ غدامس Ghadames”, “ガダーミス”, “ガダーミスの旧市街”, “ガダメス”, and “盖达米斯”
Ghadamis
- Categories: oasis, town, municipality of Libya, border city, urban area, and locality
- Location: Nalut, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.1258° or 30° 7′ 33″ north
Longitude
9.4901° or 9° 29′ 24″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
339 metres (1,112 feet)
IATA airport code
LTD
UN/LOCODE
LY LTD
Open location code
8F2F4FGR+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ghadamis” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ghadames”
- Arabic: “غدامس”
- Asturian: “Gadamés”
- Azerbaijani: “Qədamis”
- Bashkir: “Гадамес”
- Basque: “Ghadames”
- Belarusian: “Гадамес”
- Bengali: “ঘাদামিস”
- Bulgarian: “Гадамес”
- Burmese: “ဂဒါးမစ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Gadames”
- Catalan: “Ghadames”
- Cebuano: “Ghadāmis”
- Chinese: “古达米斯”
- Chinese: “古達米斯”
- Croatian: “Gadames”
- Czech: “Ghadames”
- Danish: “Ghadames”
- Dutch: “Ghadames”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جدامس”
- Esperanto: “Ghadames”
- Finnish: “Ghadamés”
- French: “Ghadamès”
- Georgian: “ღადამესი”
- German: “Ghadames”
- Greek: “Γκανταμές”
- Gujarati: “ઘેદામ્સ”
- Hausa: “Ghadames”
- Hebrew: “רדאמס”
- Hindi: “ग़दामेस”
- Hungarian: “Gadámesz”
- Indonesian: “Ghadames”
- Italian: “Gadames”
- Italian: “Ghadames”
- Japanese: “ガダミス”
- Kannada: “ಘದೇಮ್ಸ್”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ghadames”
- Korean: “가다메스”
- Latin: “Cidamus”
- Latvian: “Gadamesa”
- Lithuanian: “Gadamesas”
- Luxembourgish: “Ghadames”
- Macedonian: “Гадамес”
- Maithili: “घदामेस”
- Malay: “Ghadames”
- Maltese: “Ghadamès”
- Marathi: “घदमेस”
- Nepali: “घदामेस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghadames”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghadamis”
- Norwegian: “Ghadames”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gadames”
- Persian: “غدامس”
- Polish: “Ghadamis”
- Portuguese: “Gadamés”
- Romanian: “Ghadames”
- Russian: “Гадамес”
- Scots: “Ghadames”
- Serbian: “Gadames”
- Serbian: “Гадамес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gadames”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ghadames”
- Sinhala: “ගධමෙස්”
- Slovenian: “Ghadames”
- Somali: “Ghadames”
- Spanish: “Gadamés”
- Swahili: “Ghadamis”
- Swedish: “Ghadames”
- Tajik: “Ғадамес”
- Tamil: “காடாமெஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఘడామెస్”
- Thai: “กูดามิส”
- Thai: “เฆาะดามิส”
- Turkish: “Gadames”
- Ukrainian: “Гадамес”
- Urdu: “غدامس”
- Vietnamese: “Ghadames”
- Volapük: “Gadamis”
- Welsh: “Gadames”
- Welsh: “Ghadames”
- Western Armenian: “Ղատամիս”
- Zulu: “Ghadames”
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