Hobyo
Hobyo is an ancient port city in Galmudug state in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. Hobyo was founded as a coastal outpost by the Ajuran Empire during the 13th century.- Type: Town with 11,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Hobiya”, “Hobya”, “Hobyā”, “Hobyaa”, “Hobyow”, “Obbio”, “Sultanaat Hobyo”, “أوبيو”, “اوبيو”, and “هوبيا”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hobyo Airport.
Hobyo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mudug, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.34953° or 5° 20′ 58″ north
Longitude
48.52637° or 48° 31′ 35″ east
Population
11,800
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
CMO
UN/LOCODE
SO CMO
Open location code
6HQC8GXG+RG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hobyo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هبيا”
- Arabic: “هبيو”
- Catalan: “Obbia”
- Cebuano: “Hobyo”
- Chinese: “霍比奥”
- Dutch: “Hobyo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هبيا”
- Esperanto: “Objo”
- Finnish: “Hobyo”
- French: “Hobyo”
- German: “Hobyo”
- Greek: “Χόμπιο”
- Hebrew: “הוביו”
- Irish: “Hobyow”
- Italian: “Obbia”
- Japanese: “ホビョ”
- Polish: “Hobyo”
- Portuguese: “Hobyo”
- Portuguese: “Óbia”
- Romanian: “Hobyo”
- Russian: “Хобьо”
- Scots: “Hobyo”
- Slovenian: “Hobyo”
- Somali: “Hobyo”
- Spanish: “Hobyo”
- Swahili: “Hobyo”
- Tajik: “Ҳобйо”
- Urdu: “ہبیا”
- Zulu: “Hobyo”
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