Agounit
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Agounit (also transliterated: Aghouinite, Aghounit, Aghoueinit, Agueinit, Agwenit, Agwanit, Agüenit, Aguanit; Arabic: أغوانيت) is a small town or village in the Río de Oro area of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It is situated in the Polisario Front-held Free Zone of Western Sahara, under the jurisdiction of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and near the Mauritanian border, 72 km. south-west from Fderik. It has a hospital, a school and a mosque. It is the head of the 7th military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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Vinony's link graph records 23 inbound references to Agounit, and connects out to Andalusia, Fderîck and geography of Western Sahara.
It sits within the topics Populated places in Western Sahara and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Aghouinite ⴰⵖⵡⵉⵏⵉⵜ أغونيت
- Region
- Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira
- Country
- República Árabe Saharaui Democrática الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية
- Population
- 222
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Agwanit
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Aghoueinit or Aghouinite
- Settlement.native_name
- أغوانيتAgüenit
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Daerah
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Western Sahara
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Western Sahara
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Western Sahara
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- UN Non-Self-Governing Territory
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Controlled by
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Claimed by
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.area_total_sq_mi
- 6.82
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 17.66
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2004
- Settlement.population_total
- 222
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disputed territory
- Part of
- Free Zone
- Country
- Western Sahara
- Located in
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Population
- 222
- Elevation
- 306
- Time zone
- Western European Time
- Shares border with
- Dougaj
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Infrastructure
- Politics
- International relations
- Twin towns and sister cities
- References
- External links
Agounit (also transliterated: Aghouinite, Aghounit, Aghoueinit, Agueinit, Agwenit, Agwanit, Agüenit, Aguanit; Arabic: أغوانيت) is a small town or village in the Río de Oro area of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It is situated in the Polisario Front-held Free Zone of Western Sahara, under the jurisdiction of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and near the Mauritanian border, 72 km. south-west from Fderik. It has a hospital, a school and a mosque. It is the head of the 7th military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
==Infrastructure== On 7 June 2006, and during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the "Day of the Martyr" (commemorating the death in combat of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, first president of the SADR), Mohamed Abdelaziz (president of the SADR) inaugurated a hospital (built up with help from the Basque country government), a desalination centre (built with the help of Andalusia government), a school and the Mayoralty of Agwenit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agounit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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