Saharan Algeria
Tamanrasset Province
Daïra de Tamanrasset

Tamanrasset

Tamanrasset is an oasis city deep in . It is the capital of Tamanrasset Province, and has a population of around 100,000 people. From its towering dunes to its traditional Berber villages, Tamanrasset is an excellent place to explore the Sahara Desert and its many attractions.
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  • Type: City with 92,600 residents
  • Description: city and capital of Tamanrasset Province, Algeria
  • Also known as: “Fort Laperine”, “Fort-Laperrine”, “Tamahrasset”, “Tamanghasset”, “Tamenghest”, and “Tamenɣest”

Tamanrasset

Latitude
22.7859° or 22° 47′ 9″ north
Longitude
5.5291° or 5° 31′ 45″ east
Population
92,600
Elevation
1,372 metres (4,501 feet)
IATA airport code
TMR
United Nations Location Code
DZ TMR
Open location code
7FJ7QGPH+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 89369215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2478216
Wiki­data ID
Q205792
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Tamanrasset” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تامنراست”
  • Arabic: “تامنغاست”
  • Arabic: “تامنغست”
  • Arabic: “تمنراست”
  • Arabic: “تمنغاست”
  • Asturian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Basque: “Tamanghasset”
  • Basque: “Tamanrasset”
  • Basque: “Tamenghest”
  • Belarusian: “Таманрасэт”
  • Breton: “Tamanghasset”
  • Breton: “Tamanrasset”
  • Bulgarian: “Таманрасет”
  • Catalan: “Fort Laperrine”
  • Catalan: “Tamanghasset”
  • Catalan: “Tamanrasset”
  • Catalan: “Tamanràsset”
  • Cebuano: “Tamanrasset (kapital sa lalawigan sa Arhelya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tamanrasset”
  • Chinese: “Tamanrasset”
  • Chinese: “塔曼拉塞特”
  • Czech: “Tamanrasset”
  • Danish: “Tamanrasset”
  • Dutch: “Tamanrasset”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تامنراست”
  • Esperanto: “Tamanrasset”
  • Finnish: “Tamanghasset”
  • Finnish: “Tamanrasset”
  • French: “Tamanghasset”
  • French: “Tamanrasset”
  • French: “Tamenghest”
  • French: “Tamnrasset”
  • German: “Tamanrassat”
  • German: “Tamanrasset”
  • Greek: “Ταμανρασσέτ”
  • Hausa: “Tamanrasset”
  • Hebrew: “תאמאנראסט”
  • Hebrew: “תמנראסת”
  • Hungarian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Hungarian: “Támanrászet”
  • Indonesian: “Tamanghasset”
  • Indonesian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Italian: “Tamanghasset”
  • Italian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Japanese: “タマンラセット”
  • Japanese: “タマンラセト”
  • Kabyle: “Tamenɣest”
  • Korean: “타만라세트”
  • Korean: “타망가세트”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamangasetas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamanghasset”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamanrasetas”
  • Livvi: “Tamanrasset”
  • Malay: “Tamanrasset”
  • Maltese: “Tamanrasset”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tamanrasset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamanrasset”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamanghasset”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamanrasset”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamenghest”
  • Norwegian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tamanrasset”
  • Persian: “تمنراست”
  • Persian: “تمنرست”
  • Polish: “Fort Laperrine”
  • Polish: “Tamanghasset”
  • Polish: “Tamanghist”
  • Polish: “Tamanrasset”
  • Portuguese: “Tamanrasset”
  • Portuguese: “Tamanrassete”
  • Romanian: “Tamanghasset”
  • Romanian: “Tamanrasset”
  • Russian: “Таманрассет”
  • Russian: “Таманрассете”
  • Scots: “Tamanrasset”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tamanraset”
  • Slovenian: “Tamanghasset”
  • Slovenian: “Tamanrasset”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تمنراست”
  • Spanish: “Tamanraset”
  • Spanish: “Tamanrasset”
  • Swedish: “Tamanghasset”
  • Swedish: “Tamanrasset”
  • Swedish: “Tamenghest”
  • Turkish: “Tamanrasset”
  • Ukrainian: “Таманрассет”
  • Urdu: “تمنراست”
  • Vietnamese: “Tamanrasset”
  • Vietnamese: “Tamenghasset”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tamanghasset”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tamanrasset”
  • Welsh: “Tamangrasset”
  • Welsh: “Tamanrasset”
  • Western Panjabi: “تمنراست”
  • Zulu: “Tamanrasset”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Tamanrasset”. Photo: Habib kaki, CC0.