Kiffa

Kiffa is the capital of the Assaba region of southern . It lies on the Route de l'Espoir, the country's principal east–west highway, roughly midway between and Néma.
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  • Type: City with 60,000 residents
  • Description: commune of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Kîfa”, “Kifah”, “Kīfah”, and “Kiffa كيفة”

Kiffa

Latitude
16.6162° or 16° 36′ 58″ north
Longitude
-11.4002° or 11° 24′ 1″ west
Population
60,000
Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)
Inception
1907
IATA airport code
KFA
United Nations Location Code
MR KFA
Open location code
7C8CJH8X+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 330423418
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2378538
Wiki­data ID
Q492778
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Kiffa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኪፋ”
  • Arabic: “كيفة”
  • Arabic: “كيفه”
  • Armenian: “Կիֆֆա”
  • Asturian: “Kiffa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiffa”
  • Basque: “Kiffa”
  • Belarusian: “Кіфа”
  • Bengali: “কিফফা”
  • Bengali: “কিফ্ফা”
  • Bulgarian: “Кифа”
  • Catalan: “Kiffa”
  • Cebuano: “Kiffa”
  • Chinese: “基法”
  • Czech: “Kiffa”
  • Danish: “Kiffa”
  • Dutch: “Kiffa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيفه”
  • Esperanto: “Kiffa”
  • Estonian: “Kifa”
  • Estonian: “Kiffa”
  • Finnish: “Kiffa”
  • French: “Kifa”
  • French: “Kiffa”
  • German: “Kīfa”
  • German: “Kiffa”
  • Greek: “Κίφφα”
  • Gujarati: “કિફા”
  • Hausa: “Kiffa”
  • Hawaiian: “Kipa”
  • Hebrew: “כיפה”
  • Hindi: “किफ्फा”
  • Hindi: “कीफ़्फ़ा”
  • Indonesian: “Kiffa”
  • Irish: “Kiffa”
  • Italian: “Kiffa”
  • Japanese: “キファ”
  • Javanese: “Kiffa”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಫಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Kïffa qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Киффа қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Киффа”
  • Kazakh: “كىيففا قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Киффа”
  • Korean: “키파”
  • Latvian: “Kifa”
  • Latvian: “Kīfa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kifa”
  • Low German: “Kiffa”
  • Malay: “Kiffa”
  • Marathi: “किफा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiffa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiffa”
  • Oromo: “Kiffa”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਫ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “کیفا”
  • Persian: “کیفه”
  • Polish: “Al-Kifa”
  • Polish: “Kifa”
  • Polish: “Kiffa”
  • Portuguese: “Kiffa”
  • Pushto: “کفہ”
  • Romanian: “Kiffa”
  • Russian: “Киффа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiffa”
  • Sinhala: “කිෆා”
  • Slovak: “Kiffa”
  • Somali: “Kiffa”
  • Spanish: “Kifa”
  • Spanish: “Kiffa”
  • Swahili: “Kiffa”
  • Swedish: “Kiffa”
  • Tajik: “Киффа”
  • Tamil: “கீபா”
  • Tatar: “Киффа”
  • Telugu: “కిఫ్ఫా”
  • Thai: “คิฟฟา”
  • Turkish: “Kiffa”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіффа”
  • Urdu: “کیفہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kiffa”
  • Venetian: “Kiffa”
  • Veps: “Kiff”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiffa”

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