Basseknou is a populated place in Mauritania. GeoNames lists its administrative area as Hodh Ech Chargi.

Its mapped location is latitude 15.86652° and longitude -5.94604° (WGS84). The recorded IANA time zone is Africa/Nouakchott. The country record uses the currency code MRU. The source record reports a population of 12,232; this is a recorded figure, not a live population count.

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