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- Location: Algeria, Mauritania
1. Algeria: formerly named Timmi after the Timmi, a local Berber people. The present name means 'mountain' in Berber. It was taken from the Moroccans in 1900 by the French. It joined Algeria in 1962.
2. Mauritania: Adrar is an upland region.
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