Awdal
Most travellers who come to Awdal are simply passing through on their way to Djibouti. Although often ignored by the few tourists who make it to the country, this administrative region of the self-declared republic of Somaliland is a destination in its own right.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Borama and Zeila.
Borama
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Borama is the largest city of the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland. The commercial seat of the province, it is situated near the border with Ethiopia.
Zeila
Zeila is a historic city in the north-western reaches of Somalia, in the autonomous republic of Somaliland.
Awdal
- Type: Region with 673,000 residents
- Description: region of Somalia
- Also known as: “Adal”, “Awadal Region”, and “Awdal Region”
- Categories: region of Somalia and locality
- Location: Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.5° or 10° 30′ northLongitude
43.5° or 43° 30′ eastPopulation
673,000Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)Abbreviation
“AD”Open location code
7H25GF2X+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 43527984OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Awdal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أقليم عدل”
- Arabic: “أودال”
- Arabic: “أودل”
- Arabic: “إقليم أودل”
- Arabic: “إقليم عدل”
- Arabic: “اقليم عدل”
- Arabic: “عدل”
- Basque: “Awdal”
- Bulgarian: “Аудал”
- Catalan: “Awdal”
- Cebuano: “Gobolka Awdal”
- Chinese: “奥达勒”
- Chinese: “奥达勒州”
- Chinese: “奧達勒”
- Chinese: “奧達勒州”
- Czech: “Awdal”
- Danish: “Awdal”
- Dutch: “Awdal”
- Esperanto: “Awdal”
- Finnish: “Awdal”
- French: “Awdal”
- Georgian: “ავდალის რეგიონი”
- German: “Awdal”
- German: “Republik Awdal”
- German: “Republik von Awdal”
- Greek: “Αουντάλ”
- Hungarian: “Awdal”
- Indonesian: “Awdal”
- Italian: “Adal”
- Italian: “Awdal”
- Japanese: “アウダル州”
- Javanese: “Awdal”
- Korean: “아우달”
- Korean: “아우달주”
- Literary Chinese: “奧達勒州”
- Macedonian: “Аудал”
- Norwegian: “Awdal”
- Persian: “اودال”
- Polish: “Awdal”
- Portuguese: “Awdal”
- Russian: “Авдал”
- Russian: “Аудаль”
- Sinhala: “අවුදල් කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
- Somali: “Awdal”
- Somali: “Gobolka Awdal”
- Spanish: “Awdal”
- Spanish: “Región de Awdal”
- Swahili: “Awdal”
- Swedish: “Awdal”
- Thai: “แคว้นเอาดัล”
- Turkish: “Adal”
- Ukrainian: “Авдал”
- Urdu: “عدل علاقہ”
- Wu Chinese: “奥达勒州”
- Yue Chinese: “奧達勒”
- Zulu: “Awdal”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Awdal”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.