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Nouakchott District, Mauritaniai
Regional Level Types
Nouakchott DistrictDistrict
MauritaniaCountry

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PlacePopulation
Nouakchott661,400 (2017)
Mindat Locality ID:
145693
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:145693:9
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
French:
Nouakchott, Mauritanie
German:
Nouakchott, Mauretanien
Italian:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Russian:
Нуакшот, Мавритания
Simplified Chinese:
努瓦克肖特, 毛里塔尼亚
Spanish:
Nuakchot, Mauritania
Achinese:
Nouakchott
Adyghe:
Нуакшот
Afrikaans:
Nouakchott, Mauritanië
Albanian:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Amharic:
ኑዋክሾት
Arabic:
نواكشوط, موريتانيا
Armenian:
Նուակշոտ
Aromanian:
Nouakchott
Asturian:
Nuakxot
Azeri:
Nuakşot
Basque:
Nuakxot
Belarusian:
Нуакшот, Маўрытанія
Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):
Нуакшот
Bengali:
নুওয়াকশুত
Bosnian:
Nouakchott
Breton:
Nouakchott
Bulgarian:
Нуакшот, Мавритания
Catalan:
Nouakchott, Mauritània
Cebuano:
District de Nouakchott
Central Kurdish/Sorani:
نواکشۆت
Chechen:
Нуакшот
Cornish:
Nouakchott
Croatian:
Nouakchott
Czech:
Nuakšott, Mauritánie
Danish:
Nouakchott, Mauretanien
Dutch:
Nouakchott, Mauritanië
Egyptian Arabic:
نواكشوط
Esperanto:
Nuakŝoto
Estonian:
Nouakchott, Mauritaania
Farsi/Persian:
نوآکشوت, موریتانی
Fiji Hindi:
Nouakchott
Finnish:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Fula:
Nouakchott
Galician:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Georgian:
ნუაქშოტი
Greek:
Νουακσότ, Μαυριτανία
Guarani:
Nuakechóte
Gujarati:
નયૂવાક્ચોટ
Haitian:
Nouakchot
Hakka:
Nouakchott
Hausa:
Nouakchott
Hebrew:
נואקשוט, מאוריטניה
Hill Mari:
Нуакшот
Hindi:
नुआकशोत, मॉरिटानिया
Hungarian:
Nouakchott, Mauritánia
Icelandic:
Núaksjott, Máritanía
Ido:
Nouakchott
Indonesian:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Interlingue:
Nouakchott
Irish Gaelic:
Nouakchott, An Mháratáin
Japanese:
ヌアクショット, モーリタニア
Javanese:
Nouakchott
Kabiye:
Nuwakicɔɔtɩ
Kabyle:
Nwaqcuṭ
Kannada:
ನೌಕ್ಚೋಟ್
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Нуакшот
Kongo:
Nouakchott
Korean:
누악쇼트, 모리타니
Kyrgyz:
Нуакшот
Latin:
Nouakchott
Latvian:
Nuakšota, Mauritānija
Ligurian:
Nouakchott
Lithuanian:
Nuakšotas, Mauritanija
Livvi-Karelian:
Nuakšot
Lombard:
Nouakchott
Luxembourgish:
Nouakchott
Macedonian:
Нуакшот, Мавританија
Malay:
Nouakchott
Malayalam:
നൌവാക്ക്ച്ചോട്ട്
Marathi:
नवाकसुत
Min Dong Chinese:
Nouakchott
Mingrelian:
ნუაქშოტი
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Nouakchott
Mongolian:
Нуакшот
Nahuatl:
Nuakchot
Northern Frisian:
Nouakchott
Norwegian:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Nouakchott
Novial:
Nouakchot
Occitan:
Nouakchott
Ossetian:
Нуакшот
Pashto:
نواکشوت
Piedmontese:
Nouakchott
Polish:
Nawakszut, Mauretania
Portuguese:
Nouakchott, Mauritânia
Punjabi:
ਨੁਆਕਚੋਤ
Romanian:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Sardinian:
Nouakchott
Scots:
Nouakchott
Scottish Gaelic:
Nouakchott
Serbian:
Нуакшот, Мауританија
Serbo-Croatian:
Nouakchott
Shona:
Nouakchott
Silesian:
Nawakszut
Sinhalese:
නොවැක්චොට්
Slovak:
Nouakchott, Mauritánia
Slovenian:
Nouakchott, Mavretanija
Somali:
Nawakshot
Swahili:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Swedish:
Nouakchott, Mauretanien
Tagalog:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Tajik (Cyrillic Script):
Нуакшот
Tamil:
நவாக்சோட்
Telugu:
నౌవాషోట్
Thai:
นูอากชอต, มอริเตเนีย
Tibetan (Standard):
ནའུ་ཀ་ཅོ་ཊི།
Traditional Chinese:
或索
Turkish:
Nuakşot, Moritanya
Turkmen:
Nuakşot
Udmurt:
Нуакшот
Ukrainian:
Нуакшот, Мавританія
Urdu:
نواکشوط
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Nuakshot
Venetian:
Nouakchott
Veps:
Nuakšot
Vietnamese:
Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Volapük:
Nävakjut
Waray:
Nouakchott
Welsh:
Nouakchott, Mauritania
West Frisian:
Nouakchott
Western Punjabi:
نوواکوٹ
Wolof:
Nuwaaksot
Wu Chinese:
努瓦克肖特
Yiddish:
נואקשאט
Yoruba:
Nouakchott


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ⓘ Gypsum
Formula: CaSO4 · 2H2O

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Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘGypsum7.CD.40CaSO4 · 2H2O

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HHydrogen
Hⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
OOxygen
Oⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
SSulfur
Sⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
CaCalcium
Caⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O

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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouakchott
Wikidata ID:Q3688
GeoNames ID:2377450

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