Gao
Gao, or Gawgaw/Kawkaw, is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region. The city is located on the River Niger, 320 km east-southeast of Timbuktu on the left bank at the junction with the Tilemsi valley.Photo: David Sessoms, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: David Sessoms, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Taguelmoust, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Tomb of Askia Unesco world heritage site
Photo: Taguelmoust, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tomb of Askia, in Gao, Mali, is believed to be the burial place of Askia Mohammad I, one of the Songhai Empire's most prolific emperors.
Gao
- Type: City with 58,000 residents
- Description: city in Mali
- Categories: commune of Mali and locality
- Location: Gao, Mali, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.2788° or 16° 16' 44" northLongitude
-0.0412° or 0° 2' 29" westPopulation
58,000Elevation
257 metres (843 feet)IATA airport code
GAQUnited Nations Location Code
ML GAQOpen Location Code
7C8X7XH5+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 89918976OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2457163Wikidata ID
Q188904Gao Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Gao
- Afrikaans: Gao
- Arabic: Gao
- Arabic: جاو
- Arabic: غاو
- Arabic: قاو
- Arabic: قاوى
- Armenian: Գաո
- Bambara: Gao
- Bambara: Gàwó
- Basque: Gao
- Bengali: গাও
- Bosnian: Gao
- Breton: Gao
- Bulgarian: Гао
- Catalan: Gao
- Chinese: Gao
- Chinese: 加奥
- Chinese: 加奧
- Czech: Gao
- Danish: Gao
- Dutch: Gao
- Esperanto: Gao
- Estonian: Gao
- Finnish: Gao
- French: Gao
- Georgian: გაო
- German: Gao
- German: Kaukau
- Greek: Γκάο
- Greek: Γκαό
- Gujarati: ગાઓ
- Hausa: Gao (gari)
- Hausa: Gao
- Hebrew: גאו
- Hindi: गाओ
- Hungarian: Gao
- Indonesian: Gao
- Interlingue: Gao
- Italian: Gao
- Japanese: ガオ
- Kabyle: Gao
- Kannada: ಗಾಒ
- Korean: 가오
- Latin: Gagos
- Latvian: Gao
- Lithuanian: Gao
- Malagasy: Gao (any Malỳ)
- Malagasy: Gao
- Malay: Gao
- Marathi: गाओ
- Min Nan Chinese: Gao
- N'Ko: ߜ߭ߊ߬ߏ߫
- Northern Frisian: Gao
- Norwegian: Gao
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gao
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gao
- Persian: گائو
- Polish: Gao
- Portuguese: Gao
- Romanian: Gao
- Russian: Гао
- Scots: Gao
- Serbian: Гао
- Serbo-Croatian: Gao
- Sicilian: Gao
- Silesian: Gao (Mali)
- Silesian: Gao
- Sinhala: ගාවෝ
- Slovak: Gao
- Slovenian: Gao
- South Azerbaijani: قائو
- Spanish: Gao
- Swedish: Gao, Mali
- Swedish: Gao
- Tamil: காவோ
- Telugu: గావో
- Thai: กาโอ
- Turkish: Gao
- Ukrainian: Гао
- Ukrainian: Ґао
- Urdu: Gao
- Urdu: گاو
- Vietnamese: Gao
- Waray (Philippines): Gao
- Wu Chinese: 加奥
- Yoruba: Gao
Other Places Named Gao
In the Area
Gao is situated close to hamlet and the quarter ATT Bougou.
- GaoLocality
- DjidaraSuburb
- TinelVillage
- ThirissoroHamlet
- KolessossoroVillage
- KoïmaVillage
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Gao. Photo: David Sessoms, CC BY-SA 2.0.