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Agounit
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Also known as Aguanit, Agüenit, Agwanit, Agwenit, Agueinit, Aghoueinit, Aghounit

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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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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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • 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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