Aleg
Sign in to saveAleg is the capital of the Brakna Region, in Mauritania. It is located at . The city name means “ascending path” in Zenaga.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Aleg
- Settlement.native_name
- ألاك
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mauritania
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mauritania
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Mauritania
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Brakna
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 15521
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Mauritania
- Located in
- Aleg Department
- Population
- 27120
- Area
- 87.85
- Elevation
- 40
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Aleg Department
- Image
- Aleg mauritania.jpg
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- Aleg
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Background
- The Road of Hope
- References
Aleg is the capital of the Brakna Region, in Mauritania. It is located at . The city name means “ascending path” in Zenaga.
==Background== The town includes the village of 'Elb Jmel, and the village of Lamden which is known as the birthplace of former President of Mauritania, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aleg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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