Baraawe
Baraawe, also known as Barawe or Brava, is a port town on the Indian Ocean in Southern Somalia that was as reknown as Mogadishu during a golden age period around the 15th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,800 residents
- Description: village in Somalia
- Also known as: “Barawa”, “Braawe”, and “Brave”
Baraawe
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Lower Shabeelle, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.11278° or 1° 6′ 46″ northLongitude
44.03101° or 44° 1′ 52″ eastPopulation
32,800Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
SO BRAOpen location code
6HH6427J+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 43527946OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Baraawe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باراوا”
- Arabic: “براوة”
- Arabic: “مدينة ﺑﺮﺍﻭة”
- Asturian: “Barawa”
- Catalan: “Barawa”
- Cebuano: “Baraawe”
- Chinese: “不剌哇”
- Chinese: “巴拉韦”
- Chinese: “布拉瓦”
- Czech: “Barawa”
- Dutch: “Barawe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باراوا”
- Esperanto: “Baraŭo”
- Estonian: “Baraawe”
- Finnish: “Brava”
- French: “Brava”
- German: “Baraawe”
- German: “Barawa”
- German: “Brava”
- German: “Mwiini”
- Indonesian: “Barawa”
- Italian: “Brava”
- Japanese: “ブラバ”
- Korean: “바라와”
- Latin: “Brava”
- Literary Chinese: “不剌哇”
- Lithuanian: “Barava”
- Moksha: “Баравэ”
- Persian: “باراوا”
- Polish: “Baraawe”
- Portuguese: “Barawa”
- Romanian: “Barawa”
- Russian: “Барава”
- Russian: “Барауэ”
- Scots: “Barawa”
- Somali: “Baraawe”
- South Azerbaijani: “باراوا”
- Spanish: “Barāwe”
- Swahili: “Baraawe”
- Swedish: “Barawa”
- Ukrainian: “Барава”
- Urdu: “براوہ”
- Vietnamese: “Baraawe”
- Zulu: “Barawa”
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