Agounit
Sign in to saveAgounit (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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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
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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Article
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.