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Removing from Category:Populated places in Gao Region using Cat-a-lot

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|name = Tarkint
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|settlement_type = [[Communes of Mali|Commune]] and village
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|pushpin_map = Mali
|pushpin_label_position = bottom
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|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Mali
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Mali}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Mauritania|Region]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Gao Region]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Cercles of Mali|Cercle]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Bourem Cercle]]
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|government_type = Elected body
|leader_title = [[Mayor]]
|leader_name = Baba Ould Cheikh Sid’Elmoctar Alkounti
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|area_footnotes =<ref name=USAIDcommune>{{citation | title=Plan de Securite Alimentaire Commune de Tarkint 2005-2009 | publisher=Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali | year=2005 | url=http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/AC58E8EF0F340C88C125722C004CAFBA-govt-mli-tarkint-30jun.pdf | language=French }}.</ref>
|area_total_km2 =23000
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|population_as_of = 2009 census
|population_footnotes =<ref name=pop2009>{{citation | url=https://www.essonnesahel.org/spip/IMG/pdf/mali.pdf
| publisher=République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique| title=Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Gao) | language=French }}.</ref>
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|elevation_m = 305
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''' Tarkint ''' is a village and [[Communes of Mali|commune]] in the [[Bourem Cercle|Cercle of Bourem]] in the [[Gao Region]] of north-eastern [[Mali]]. The village is {{convert|70|km|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Bourem]] and {{convert|123|km|abbr=on}} from [[Gao]]. Tarkint extends for 23,000 km<sup>2</sup> and includes part of the Tilemsi Valley. In the 2009 census Tarkint had a population of 19,082.

== Cocaine Air ==
The sandblown village became notorious in 2009, when the burnt-out wreckage of an old [[Boeing 727]] airliner was found abandoned in the desert, 85 miles north of Gao, at the scene of the so-called "Cocaine Air" incident. It is believed that the aircraft had been transporting up to 10 tons of [[cocaine]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9829099/Revealed-how-Saharan-caravans-of-cocaine-help-to-fund-al-Qaeda-in-terrorists-North-African-domain.html ''Revealed: how Saharan caravans of cocaine help to fund al-Qaeda in terrorists' North African domain'']. telegraph.co.uk. From 26 January 2013</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Communes of the Gao Region}}

[[Category:Communes of Gao Region]]
[[Category:Communities on the Niger River]]

{{Gao-geo-stub}}

Tarkint - Revision history

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