Mauritania
Sahelian Mauritania
Tagant Region

Tichit

Tichit, or Tichitt, is a village at the foot of the Tagant Plateau in central southern that is known for its vernacular architecture and proximity to the Dhar Tichitt archaeological sites.
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  • Type: City with 1,580 residents
  • Description: village in Mauretania
  • Also known as: “Tîchît”, “Tichitt”, and “Tishit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tichitt Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the town of Tichit in . Runway boundaries are marked in white on dark rock or dirt; are otherwise difficult to discern.

Tichit

Latitude
18.4441° or 18° 26′ 39″ north
Longitude
-9.4931° or 9° 29′ 35″ west
Population
1,580
Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)
IATA airport code
THI
United Nations Location Code
MR THI
Open location code
7CCGCGV4+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2382418992
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2376218
Wiki­data ID
Q985527
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Satellite Map

Discover Tichit from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tichit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيشيت”
  • Asturian: “Tichit”
  • Basque: “Tichit”
  • Catalan: “Tichit”
  • Catalan: “Tichitt”
  • Chinese: “提希特”
  • Danish: “Tichitt”
  • Dutch: “Tichitt”
  • Finnish: “Tichitt”
  • French: “Tichitt”
  • Georgian: “ტიშიტი”
  • German: “Tichit”
  • German: “Tichite”
  • German: “Tichitt”
  • Hebrew: “טישיט”
  • Hebrew: “תישית”
  • Hindi: “तिशित”
  • Italian: “Tichitt”
  • Japanese: “ティシット”
  • Kabyle: “Ticcit”
  • Kotava: “Tichitt”
  • Latvian: “Tīšīta”
  • Lithuanian: “Tidžitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tišitas”
  • Malay: “Tichit”
  • Nepali: “तिचित”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tichitt”
  • Norwegian: “Tichitt”
  • Polish: “Tichit”
  • Polish: “Tichitt”
  • Polish: “Tiszit”
  • Polish: “Tiszitt”
  • Portuguese: “Tichit”
  • Romanian: “Tichitt”
  • Russian: “Тишит”
  • Spanish: “Tichit”
  • Spanish: “Tichitt”
  • Swedish: “Tichit”
  • Swedish: “Tichitt”
  • Turkish: “Tichitt”
  • Ukrainian: “Тішит”
  • Urdu: “تیشیت”

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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 “Tichit”. Photo: Chafei07, CC BY-SA 4.0.