Banaadir
Banaadir is an administrative region in southeastern Somalia. It covers the same area as the city of Mogadishu, which serves as the capital. It is the only region in the country not belonging to any of the seven states.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: region of Somalia with 1,650,000 residents
- Description: southern coastal region of Somalia
- Also known as: “Banaadir coastal region”, “Banaadir region”, “Banadir Region”, “Benaadir”, “Benadir”, “Benadir region”, “Benadir Region”, “Gobolka Xamar”, “Mogadiscio”, and “Mogadishu”
Banaadir
- Location: Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Banaadir” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ባናዲር”
- Arabic: “بنادر”
- Arabic: “بنادر”
- Arabic: “بنادير”
- Armenian: “Բանադիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Banaadir”
- Basque: “Banaadir”
- Belarusian: “Банаадыр”
- Bengali: “বানাদির”
- Bulgarian: “Банадир”
- Catalan: “Banaadir”
- Cebuano: “Gobolka Banaadir”
- Chinese: “巴納迪爾州”
- Chinese: “巴纳迪尔州”
- Danish: “Banaadir”
- Dutch: “Banaadir”
- Esperanto: “Banaadir”
- Finnish: “Banaadir”
- French: “Banaadir”
- Georgian: “ბენადირის რეგიონი”
- German: “Banaadir”
- German: “Benadir”
- German: “Benadirküste”
- German: “SO-BN”
- Greek: “Μπανααντίρ”
- Gujarati: “બનાદિર”
- Hausa: “Banaadir”
- Hebrew: “בנאדיר”
- Hindi: “बानादीर”
- Indonesian: “Banaadir”
- Italian: “Banaadir”
- Italian: “Benadir”
- Japanese: “バナーディル”
- Japanese: “バナディール州”
- Japanese: “ベナディル海岸”
- Javanese: “Banaadir”
- Kannada: “ಬನಾಡಿರ್”
- Kazakh: “Banaadir”
- Kirghiz: “Banaadir”
- Korean: “바나디르주”
- Latvian: “Banādira”
- Literary Chinese: “巴納迪爾州”
- Lithuanian: “Benadiras”
- Malay: “Banaadir”
- Marathi: “बानादीर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banaadir”
- Norwegian: “Banaadir”
- Oromo: “Banaadir”
- Panjabi: “ਬਨਾਦਿਰ”
- Persian: “استان بنادر”
- Persian: “بنادر”
- Polish: “Banaadir”
- Portuguese: “Banaadir”
- Pushto: “بنادر”
- Romanian: “Banaadir”
- Russian: “Банадир”
- Scots: “Banaadir”
- Sinhala: “බනාදීර් කලාපය, සෝමාලියාව”
- Sinhala: “බනාදීර්”
- Somali: “Banaadir”
- Somali: “BANAADIR”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنادر (استان)”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنادر”
- Spanish: “Banaadir”
- Spanish: “Banadir”
- Spanish: “Banādir”
- Spanish: “Benadir”
- Spanish: “Región de Benadir”
- Swahili: “Banaadir”
- Swedish: “Banaadir”
- Swedish: “Banadir”
- Tajik: “Banaadir”
- Tamil: “பநாடிர்”
- Tatar: “Banaadir”
- Telugu: “బనాడిర్”
- Thai: “แคว้นบานาดีร์”
- Turkish: “Banaadir”
- Turkish: “Benadir”
- Ukrainian: “Бенадір”
- Urdu: “بنادر”
- Uzbek: “Banaadir”
- Vietnamese: “Banaadir”
- Zulu: “Banaadir”
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