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”, “Hobyā”, “Hobyaa”, and “Hobyow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hobyo Airport.
Hobyo Airport
Aerodrome
Obbia Airport is an airstrip serving Hobyo, Somalia. The facility has a single runway with a non-hardened surface and lies parallel to the coastline, about 2 km inland.
Hobyo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mudug, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
United Nations Location Code
SO CMO
Open location code
6HQC8GXG+RG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hobyo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبيو”
- Arabic: “اوبيو”
- Arabic: “هبيا”
- Arabic: “هبيو”
- Arabic: “هوبيا”
- Catalan: “Hobya”
- Catalan: “Obbia”
- Cebuano: “Hobyo”
- Chinese: “霍比奥”
- Dutch: “Hobyo”
- Dutch: “Sultanaat Hobyo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هبيا”
- Esperanto: “Objo”
- Finnish: “Hobyo”
- Finnish: “Obbio”
- French: “Hobyo”
- German: “Hobya”
- German: “Hobyo”
- German: “Obbia”
- Greek: “Χόμπιο”
- Hebrew: “הוביו”
- Irish: “Hobyow”
- Italian: “Hobyo”
- Italian: “Obbia”
- Japanese: “ホビョ”
- Polish: “Hobyo”
- Portuguese: “Hobyo”
- Portuguese: “Óbia”
- Romanian: “Hobyo”
- Russian: “Хобьо”
- Scots: “Hobyo”
- Slovenian: “Hobya”
- Slovenian: “Hobyo”
- Slovenian: “Obbia”
- Somali: “Hobyo”
- Spanish: “Hobyo”
- Spanish: “Obbia”
- Swahili: “Hobyo”
- Tajik: “Ҳобйо”
- Urdu: “ہبیا”
- Zulu: “Hobyo”
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