East Africa
Somalia
Middle Shabele

Balad

Bal'ad District is one of the districts of region of . It is located about 36 kilometers northeast of the capital city of .
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in Middle Shabelle
  • Also known as: “Bal’ad District”, “Balad, Somalia”, and “Balcad”

Balad

Latitude
2.35929° or 2° 21′ 33″ north
Longitude
45.38793° or 45° 23′ 17″ east
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Open location code
6HJ7995Q+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1404222675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
64937
Wiki­data ID
Q15196226
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Balad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلعد”
  • Asturian: “Balad”
  • Chinese: “巴勒阿德”
  • Dutch: “Balad”
  • French: “Balad”
  • Italian: “Balad”
  • Japanese: “バラド”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balad”
  • Norwegian: “Balad”
  • Persian: “بلد”
  • Russian: “Балъад”
  • Somali: “Balcad”
  • Spanish: “Bal’ad”
  • Zulu: “Balad, Somaliya”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balad”. Photo: AMISOM, CC0.