{
 "id": "place/gao",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "gao",
 "label": {
  "ar": "غاو",
  "en": "Gao"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة في مالي على نهر النيجر، كانت عاصمة إمبراطورية سنغاي.",
  "en": "A city in Mali on the Niger River; it was the capital of the Songhai Empire."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  16.2717,
  -0.0447
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   16.2717,
   -0.0447
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "site",
  "external_ids": {
   "geonames": "2457163"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; coordinates from GeoNames; Arabic summary to be checked against reference works"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "غاو مدينة في مالي على نهر النيجر، كانت عاصمة إمبراطورية سنغاي. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nالوصف التاريخي يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/gao",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Gao is a city in Mali on the Niger river, which was the capital of the Songhai empire. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nThe historical description needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/gao",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مالی میں دریائے نائجر پر ایک شہر، جو سنغائی سلطنت کا دارالحکومت رہا۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nاس کے تاریخی بیان کے لیے مزید ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/gao",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-12",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}