Banaadir

Banaadir is an administrative region in southeastern . It covers the same area as the city of , which serves as the capital. It is the only region in the country not belonging to any of the seven states.
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  • Region of Somalia with about 1,650,000 residents
  • …is abbreviated as “BN”
  • Description: southern coastal region of Somalia
  • Also known as
    “Banaadir coastal region”
    “Banaadir region”
    “Banadir Region”
    “Benaadir”
    “Benadir”
    “Benadir Region”
    “Gobolka Xamar”
    “Mogadiscio”
    “Mogadishu”
  • Location
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Latitude
2.1167° or 2° 7′ north
Longitude
45.4° or 45° 24′ east
Open location code
6HJ74C82+M2
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Banaadir” goes by many names.
ባናዲርAmharic
بنادر‎Arabic
بناديرArabic
ԲանադիրArmenian
BanaadirAzerbaijani
BanaadirBasque
БанаадырBelarusian
বানাদিরBengali
БанадирBulgarian
BanaadirCatalan
Gobolka BanaadirCebuano
巴納迪爾州Chinese
巴纳迪尔州Chinese
BanaadirDanish
BanaadirDutch
BanaadirEsperanto
BanaadirFinnish
ბენადირის რეგიონიGeorgian
ΜπανααντίρGreek
બનાદિરGujarati
BanaadirHausa
בנאדירHebrew
बानादीरHindi
BanaadirIndonesian
BanaadirItalian
BenadirItalian
バナーディルJapanese
バナディール州Japanese
ベナディル海岸Japanese
BanaadirJavanese
ಬನಾಡಿರ್Kannada
BanaadirKazakh
BanaadirKirghiz
바나디르주Korean
BanādiraLatvian
巴納迪爾州Literary Chinese
BenadirasLithuanian
BanaadirMalay
बानादीरMarathi
BanaadirNorwegian
BanaadirNorwegian Bokmål
BanaadirOromo
ਬਨਾਦਿਰPanjabi
استان بنادرPersian
بنادرPersian
BanaadirPolish
بنادرPushto
BanaadirRomanian
БанадирRussian
BanaadirScots
බනාදීර්Sinhala
බනාදීර් කලාපය, සෝමාලියාවSinhala
BanaadirSomali
بنادرSouth Azerbaijani
بنادر (استان)South Azerbaijani
BanaadirSwahili
BanaadirSwedish
BanadirSwedish
BanaadirTajik
பநாடிர்Tamil
BanaadirTatar
బనాడిర్Telugu
แคว้นบานาดีร์Thai
BanaadirTurkish
BenadirTurkish
БенадірUkrainian
بنادرUrdu
BanaadirUzbek
BanaadirVietnamese
BanaadirZulu

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