Laghouat
Laghouat is the capital of the Laghouat Province, Algeria, 400 km south of the Algerian capital Algiers. Located in the Amour Range of the Saharan Atlas, the town is an oasis on the north edge of the Sahara Desert.
- Type: City with 145,000 residents
- Description: commune of Algeria
- Also known as: “Laghwat”, “Larhouat”, and “الأغواط ⵍⴻⵖⵡⴰⵟ”
Laghouat
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Daïra de Laghouat, Laghouat Province, Saharan Atlas, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.8063° or 33° 48′ 23″ north
Longitude
2.8803° or 2° 52′ 49″ east
Population
145,000
Elevation
764 metres (2,507 feet)
IATA airport code
LOO
United Nations Location Code
DZ LOO
Open location code
8F54RV4J+G4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Laghouat” goes by many names.
- Algerian Arabic: “الأغواط”
- Amharic: “ላጋወት”
- Arabic: “الأغواط”
- Armenian: “Լագուատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Lagvat”
- Azerbaijani: “Ləğuat”
- Basque: “Laghouat”
- Belarusian: “Лагуат”
- Belarusian: “Лягуат”
- Bengali: “লাগহুয়া”
- Bengali: “লাগোয়াত”
- Breton: “Laghouat”
- Catalan: “Laghouat”
- Cebuano: “Laghouat”
- Chinese: “Laghouat”
- Chinese: “拉豪特”
- Chinese: “艾格瓦特”
- Danish: “Laghouat”
- Dutch: “Laghouat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الاغواط”
- Esperanto: “Laghuat”
- Finnish: “Laghouat”
- French: “Biskra1852”
- French: “Laghouat”
- Galician: “Laghouat”
- German: “Al-Aghwat”
- German: “Laghouat”
- German: “Laguat”
- Greek: “Λαγκουάτ”
- Gujarati: “લઘુઅટ”
- Hausa: “Laghouat”
- Hebrew: “לאגואט”
- Hebrew: “לאגוואט”
- Hindi: “लग़वात”
- Hindi: “लाघोआत”
- Indonesian: “Laghouat”
- Italian: “Laghouat”
- Japanese: “ラグアット”
- Japanese: “ラゴアット”
- Javanese: “Laghouat”
- Kabyle: “Leɣwaṭ”
- Kannada: “ಲಘುತ್”
- Kazakh: “Лагоат”
- Kirghiz: “Лагоат”
- Korean: “라구아트”
- Latvian: “Laguata”
- Lithuanian: “Agwat”
- Lithuanian: “Laghouat”
- Lithuanian: “Laguatas”
- Malay: “Laghouat”
- Marathi: “लाँगऊत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Laghouat”
- Northern Frisian: “Laghouat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laghouat”
- Norwegian: “Laghouat”
- Oromo: “Laghouat”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਘੋਆਤ”
- Persian: “الاغواط، الجزایر”
- Persian: “الاغواط”
- Polish: “Al-Aghwat”
- Polish: “Laghouat”
- Portuguese: “Laghouat”
- Pushto: “الأغواط”
- Romanian: “Laghouat”
- Russian: “Лагуат”
- Serbian: “Лагуат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Laguat”
- Shona: “Laghouat”
- Sinhala: “ලන්ගොහුවාට්”
- Somali: “Laghouat”
- South Azerbaijani: “الاغواط، الجزاییر”
- Spanish: “Laghouat”
- Spanish: “Lagouat”
- Swahili: “Laghouat”
- Swedish: “Laghouat”
- Tajik: “Лагоат”
- Tamil: “லாக்ஹோவுவாட்”
- Tatar: “Лагоат”
- Telugu: “లగ్హౌట్”
- Thai: “แล็กเฮาแอท”
- Turkish: “Laghouat”
- Turkish: “Lagvat”
- Ukrainian: “Лагуат”
- Urdu: “الأغواط”
- Urdu: “الاغواط”
- Urdu: “لاگھواٹ”
- Uzbek: “Laghouat”
- Vietnamese: “Laghouat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Laghouat”
- Western Panjabi: “اغواط”
- Zulu: “Laghouat”
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