Geneina
Geneina is a city in West Darfur, part of the dar Masalit region, in Sudan. It joined British Sudan at the end of 1919 through the Gilani Agreement, signed between the Masalit Sultanate and the United Kingdom, according to which it became a territory.- Type: City with 253,000 residents
- Description: Human settlement in West Darfur, Sudan
- Also known as: “Aj Jinena”, “Aj Jinēna”, “Ajjinena”, “Al Genain”, “Al Geneina”, “Al Jeneina”, “Al Jinena”, “Al Jinēna”, “Al Junaynah”, “Al-Ginaina”, “Al-Jinayna”, “Al-Junaynah”, “El Geneina”, “Geneina Fort”, “الجنينة ولاية غرب دارفور”, and “ゲネイナ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ardamata.
Geneina
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Western Darfur, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.442° or 13° 26′ 31″ north
Longitude
22.446° or 22° 26′ 46″ east
Population
253,000
Elevation
797 metres (2,615 feet)
IATA airport code
EGN
UN/LOCODE
SD EGN
Open location code
7G54CCRW+R9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Geneina” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አል-ጁናይናህ”
- Arabic: “الجنينة”
- Asturian: “Geneina”
- Azerbaijani: “Al-Junaynah”
- Basque: “Geneina”
- Bengali: “আল-জুনাইনাহ”
- Bengali: “জেনেইনা”
- Breton: “Al-Junaynah”
- Bulgarian: “Генеина”
- Cebuano: “Geneina”
- Chinese: “朱奈納”
- Chinese: “朱奈纳”
- Croatian: “Al-Džunajna”
- Danish: “Geneina”
- Dutch: “Al-Junaynah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجنينه”
- Esperanto: “Genejna”
- Finnish: “Geneina”
- French: “Al-Genaïna”
- French: “El-Geneina”
- German: “Al-Dschunaina”
- Greek: “Τζενέινα”
- Gujarati: “જીનૈના”
- Hausa: “Al-Junaynah”
- Hebrew: “ג’ניינה”
- Hebrew: “גניינה”
- Hindi: “अल-जुनैना”
- Hindi: “जनैईना”
- Indonesian: “Al-Junaynah”
- Irish: “Geneina”
- Italian: “Geneina”
- Japanese: “アルジュナイナ”
- Japanese: “ジュナイナ”
- Javanese: “Al-Junaynah”
- Kannada: “ಜಿನೀನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Аль-Джунайна”
- Kirghiz: “Аль-Джунайна”
- Korean: “알주나이나”
- Latvian: “Geneina”
- Lithuanian: “Geneina”
- Malay: “Al-Junaynah”
- Malay: “Geneina”
- Marathi: “जीनिना”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ჟენეინა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Geneina”
- Norwegian: “Geneina”
- Oromo: “Al-Junaynah”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ-ਜੁਨੈਨਾ”
- Persian: “الجنینه”
- Polish: “Al-Dżunajna”
- Portuguese: “Al-Junaynah”
- Portuguese: “Geneina”
- Pushto: “الجنينة”
- Romanian: “Al-Junaynah”
- Russian: “Аль-Джунайна”
- Russian: “Эль-Генейна”
- Serbian: “Ел Џунајна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Genejna”
- Sinhala: “ජෙනේයිනා”
- Slovenian: “Geneina”
- Somali: “Al-Junaynah”
- South Azerbaijani: “الجنینه”
- Spanish: “Al-Junaynah”
- Spanish: “El Geneina”
- Spanish: “Geneina”
- Swahili: “Al-Junaynah”
- Swedish: “Geneina”
- Tajik: “Аль-Джунайна”
- Tamil: “ஜெனினா”
- Tatar: “Аль-Джунайна”
- Telugu: “జెనెఈనా”
- Thai: “อัลญุนัยนะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Al-Junaynah”
- Turkish: “El Cuneyna”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Генейна”
- Urdu: “الجنینہ”
- Urdu: “جنینہ”
- Uzbek: “Al-Junaynah”
- Vietnamese: “Geneina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Geneina”
- Zulu: “Geneina”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Al salam A and Imtedad A.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Hospital for xpat and Geneina Teaching Hosoital.
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