Guerguerat
Guerguerat is the southernmost settlement in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara. It serves as the only official and vital border crossing between Western Sahara and Mauritania, acting as a gateway to sub-Saharan Africa.
- Village with 28 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (70 feet)
- Description: a small village in the far south west of Western Sahara
- Also known as“Guergarat”“Guergarat ⴳⵔⴳⴰⵔⴰⵜ الكركرات”“گرگارات”“گرگرات”
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Latitude
21.427° or 21° 25′ 37″ north
Longitude
-16.9599° or 16° 57′ 36″ west
Open location code
7CH5C2GR+Q2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Guerguerat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكركرات”
- Arabic: “ڭرڭارات مغربية”
- Azerbaijani: “Qergerat”
- Belarusian: “Гергерат”
- Catalan: “Guerguerat”
- Chinese: “盖尔盖拉特”
- Dutch: “Guerguerat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكركرات”
- French: “Guergarat”
- French: “Guerguerat”
- German: “Al-Karkarat”
- German: “Guerguerat”
- Hebrew: “גרגראט”
- Hindi: “गेरगेरात”
- Irish: “Guerguerat”
- Japanese: “ゲルゲラト”
- Korean: “게르게라트”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لڭرڭرات”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لݣرݣرات”
- Persian: “الکرکرات”
- Polish: “Al-Karkarat”
- Russian: “Гергерат”
- Slovenian: “Guerguerat”
- Spanish: “Guergarat”
- Spanish: “Guerguerat”
- Ukrainian: “Гергерат”
- Urdu: “الکرکرات”
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