Sheikh
Sheikh, is a town in central Somaliland. It is associated with one of the largest remains of a medieval settlement in Horn of Africa that formed part of a wider network of inland and coastal trade centres linking the region to Red Sea and Indian Ocean commerce.
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Photo: AYMBarwaaqo, Public domain.- Type: Town
- Description: town in Somaliland
- Also known as: “Sheekh”, “Sheikh شيخ”, “Sheikh, Somaliland”, “Skeekh”, “Upper Sheikh”, “シェーハ”, “シェイク”, “シェイハ”, and “謝赫（索馬利亞）”
Sheikh
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Togdheer, Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.9319° or 9° 55′ 55″ north
Longitude
45.19237° or 45° 11′ 33″ east
Elevation
1,432 metres (4,698 feet)
Open location code
6HX7W5JR+QW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sheikh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيخ”
- Asturian: “Sheekh”
- Chinese: “謝赫”
- Dutch: “Sheikh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيخ”
- French: “Sheikh”
- Hebrew: “שייח”
- Italian: “Sheikh”
- Japanese: “シェーク”
- Polish: “Sheekh”
- Polish: “Shiikh”
- Romanian: “Shiikh, Somalia”
- Romanian: “Shiikh”
- Russian: “Ших”
- Somali: “Sheekh, Somaliland”
- Somali: “Shiikh”
- Sranan Tongo: “Sheekh”
- Swedish: “Shiikh”
- Urdu: “شیخ، صومالیہ”
- Western Panjabi: “شیخ، صومالیہ”
- Zulu: “Sheikh, Somaliland”
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