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Kiffa
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Kiffa () is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Kiffa
Settlement.native_name
كيفه
Settlement.settlement_type
Commune and town
Settlement.image_skyline
Kiffa market.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Kiffa Marketplace
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
Assaba Region
Settlement.area_total_km2
1,078
Settlement.population_as_of
2013 census
Settlement.population_total
60,005
Settlement.population_urban
50,206
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Climate
  • Population, infrastructure and agriculture
  • Kiffa beads
  • Affolle mountains
  • Abderrahmane Sissako
  • 1970 meteorite impact
  • References

Kiffa () is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region.

Kiffa is located at , some from the coast and at the western end of the Aoukar sand sea of southern Mauritania.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiffa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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