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Kidal

Kidal is a town and commune in the desert region of northern . The town lies 285 km northeast of and is the capital of the and the .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kidal Airport.

Aerodrome
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is an airstrip serving Kidal in .

Kidal

Latitude
18.4408° or 18° 26′ 27″ north
Longitude
1.4075° or 1° 24′ 27″ east
Population
25,000
Elevation
457 metres (1,499 feet)
Open location code
7FC3CCR5+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2032098356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2455290
Wiki­data ID
Q650100
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Kidal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيدال”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kidal”
  • Bambara: “Kidal”
  • Bambara: “Kidali”
  • Basque: “Kidal”
  • Bengali: “মাইদান শার”
  • Catalan: “Kidal”
  • Chinese: “Kidal”
  • Chinese: “基达尔”
  • Chinese: “基達爾”
  • Danish: “Kidal”
  • Dutch: “Kidal”
  • Esperanto: “Kidal”
  • Estonian: “Kidal”
  • Finnish: “Kidal”
  • French: “Kidal”
  • Galician: “Kidal”
  • German: “Kidal”
  • Greek: “Κιντάλ”
  • Gujarati: “કિડલ”
  • Hebrew: “קידל”
  • Hindi: “किडाळ”
  • Hungarian: “Kidal”
  • Indonesian: “Kidal”
  • Italian: “Kidal”
  • Japanese: “キダル”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಡಾಲ್”
  • Korean: “키달”
  • Latvian: “Kidala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kidalis”
  • Malagasy: “Kidal”
  • Malay: “Kidal”
  • Marathi: “किडल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kidal”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߌ߬ߘߊߟ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kidal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kidal”
  • Norwegian: “Kidal”
  • Persian: “کیدال”
  • Polish: “Kidal”
  • Portuguese: “Kidal”
  • Romanian: “Kidal”
  • Russian: “Кидаль”
  • Sinhala: “කිඩාල්”
  • Slovenian: “Kidal”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیدال”
  • Spanish: “Kidal”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵉⴷⴰⵍ”
  • Swedish: “Kidal”
  • Tachelhit: “Kidal”
  • Tamil: “கிடல்”
  • Telugu: “కిడాల్”
  • Thai: “กีดาล”
  • Turkish: “Kidal”
  • Ukrainian: “Кідаль”
  • Urdu: “کڈال”
  • Vietnamese: “Kidal”
  • Volapük: “Kidal”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kidal”. Photo: Taguelmoust, CC BY-SA 3.0.