Goundam
Goundam is a commune and town in north central Mali, in the Tombouctou Region. It is the capital of Goundam Cercle, one of five subdivisions of the Region.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Goundam
- Type: City with 16,300 residents
- Description: commune of Mali
- Categories: commune of Mali and locality
- Location: Timbuktu, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
16.4169° or 16° 25′ 1″ north
Longitude
-3.6636° or 3° 39′ 49″ west
Population
16,300
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
IATA airport code
GUD
United Nations Location Code
ML GUD
Open location code
7C8RC88P+PG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Goundam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية غاوندام”
- Arabic: “غوندام”
- Azerbaijani: “Qundam”
- Bambara: “Gundamu”
- Basque: “Goundam”
- Cebuano: “Goundam”
- Chinese: “Goundam”
- Chinese: “貢達姆”
- Chinese: “贡达姆”
- Dutch: “Goundam”
- Estonian: “Goundam”
- Finnish: “Goundam”
- French: “Goundam”
- German: “Goundam”
- Greek: “Γκουντάμ”
- Italian: “Goundam”
- Japanese: “グンダム”
- Japanese: “ゴウンダム”
- Korean: “Goundam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Goundam”
- Persian: “گوندام، مالی”
- Persian: “گوندام”
- Polish: “Goundam”
- Portuguese: “Goundam”
- Russian: “Гундам”
- Spanish: “Goundam”
- Swedish: “Goundam”
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