Yao

Yao is a town in and the capital of the . Yao is also the name of a pre-colonial Sultanate in the same area, the Yao Sultanate.
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  • City with 7,640 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 293 metres (961 feet)
  • Description: town in Chad
  • Also known as
    “Yao ياؤ”
    “Yao, Chad”

Yao

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Latitude
12.85101° or 12° 51′ 4″ north
Longitude
17.5593° or 17° 33′ 34″ east
Open location code
7F4VVH25+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3012158227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2424324
Wiki­data ID
Q3112913

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Yao” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ياؤ”
  • Asturian: “Yao”
  • Catalan: “Yao (Txad)”
  • Catalan: “Yao”
  • Chinese: “亚奥”
  • Danish: “Yao”
  • Dutch: “Yao”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياؤ”
  • French: “Yao”
  • German: “Yao”
  • Italian: “Yao (Ciad)”
  • Italian: “Yao”
  • Japanese: “ヤオ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yao”
  • Norwegian: “Yao”
  • Portuguese: “Yao”
  • Russian: “Яо (Чад)”
  • Russian: “Яо”
  • Urdu: “یاو، چاڈ”

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