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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Kankossa</span></h1>
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<th colspan="2" style="background:#CAE1FF; color:#202122; font-size:120%;">Kankossa<br><bdo dir="ltr"><bdi dir="rtl" lang="ar" class="arabic spanAr" style="unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:120%;">كنكوصة</bdi></bdo>
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<td style="border-left:0;"><span style="display:none">Mauretanien</span><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="Mauretanien" title="Mauretanien"></a></span> <a href="Mauretanien" title="Mauretanien">Mauretanien</a>
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<td style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:8px;"><a href="Liste_der_Regionen_in_Mauretanien" title="Liste der Regionen in Mauretanien">Region</a>:
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<td><a href="Assaba" title="Assaba">Assaba</a>
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<td style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:8px;">Departement:
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<td><a href="Kankossa_(D%C3%A9partement)" title="Kankossa (Département)">Kankossa</a>
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<td><span id="text_coordinates" class="coordinates -print"><a class="external text" href="geo:15.937222,-11.520833"><span title="Breitengrad">15° 56′ <abbr title="Nord">N</abbr></span>, <span title="Längengrad">11° 31′ <abbr title="West">W</abbr></span></a></span><span class="geo noexcerpt" style="display:none"><span class="body"></span><span class="latitude">15.937222</span><span class="longitude">-11.520833</span><span class="elevation">73</span></span>
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<td>73 Meter <a href="H%C3%B6he_%C3%BCber_dem_Meeresspiegel" title="Höhe über dem Meeresspiegel">ü.d.M.</a>
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<td>236,50 km²
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<td style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:8px;"><a href="Einwohnerzahl" title="Einwohnerzahl">Einwohner</a>:
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<td>23.435 <small><i>(2023)</i></small>
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<td>99 Einwohner je km²
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<p><b>Kankossa</b> (<a href="Arabische_Sprache" title="Arabische Sprache">arabisch</a> <bdo dir="ltr"><bdi dir="rtl" lang="ar" class="arabic spanAr" style="unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:120%;">كنكوصة</bdi></bdo>) ist eine Stadt in der Verwaltungsregion <a href="Assaba" title="Assaba">Assaba</a> in <a href="Mauretanien" title="Mauretanien">Mauretanien</a> und ist Hauptstadt des <a href="Liste_der_Regionen_in_Mauretanien" title="Liste der Regionen in Mauretanien">Départements</a> <a href="Kankossa_(D%C3%A9partement)" title="Kankossa (Département)">Kankossa</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographie">Geographie</h2></div>
<p>Der Hauptort der Gemeinde Kankossa liegt 525 Kilometer südöstlich von <a href="Nouakchott" title="Nouakchott">Nouakchott</a> auf etwa <span style="border-width:0px; padding:0px; margin:0px;">73 <abbr title="Höhe über dem Meeresspiegel">m</abbr></span> Meereshöhe im südlichen Zentrum des Landes an der südwestlichen Öffnung der Senke <a href="El_Hodh" title="El Hodh">El Hodh</a> zum <a href="Senegal_(Fluss)" title="Senegal (Fluss)">Senegal-Flusssystem</a>, 32 Kilometer von der <a href="Mali" title="Mali">malischen</a> Grenze entfernt.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Kankossa liegt als <a href="Flussoase" class="mw-redirect" title="Flussoase">Flussoase</a> am linken östlichen Ufer des <a href="Oued" class="mw-redirect" title="Oued">Oued</a> <a href="Karakoro_(Fluss)" title="Karakoro (Fluss)">Karakoro</a>, der südlich des Ortes das fruchtbare Feuchtgebiet <i>Mare de Kaora</i> oder <i>Mare de Kankossa</i> ausbildet.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bevölkerung"><span id="Bev.C3.B6lkerung"></span>Bevölkerung</h2></div>
<p>Die Bevölkerungszahl der Gemeinde hat in den Jahren 2000 bis 2023 von 11.083 auf 23.435 Einwohner zugenommen.<sup id="cite_ref-cpop_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cpop-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Der Hauptort <i>Kenkoussa</i> selbst hat 9.699 Einwohner (2023). Daneben gibt es noch 48 andere bewohnte Orte.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geonames.org/2378716/kankossa.html">Kankossa bei Geonames</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geonames.org/2378711/mare-de-kaora.html">Mare de Kaora</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6920765#map=13/15.92881/-11.52706&layers=P">Mare de Kankossa bei OpenStreetMap</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-cpop-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-cpop_3-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Citypopulation: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.citypopulation.de/de/mauritania/mun/admin/">Mauretanien: Gemeindegliederung</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">ANSADE: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ansade.mr/fr/localites-habitees-en-mauritanie/">Localités habitées en Mauritanie (RGPH 2023)</a></span>
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