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.
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Awdal
- Type: Region with 673,000 residents
- Description: region of Somalia
- Also known as: “Awadal Region”, “Awdal Region”, “Republik Awdal”, “Republik von Awdal”, “أقليم عدل”, “أودل”, “إقليم أودل”, “إقليم عدل”, “اقليم عدل”, and “عدل Awdal”
- Categories: region of Somalia and locality
- Location: Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.5° or 10° 30′ north
Longitude
43.5° or 43° 30′ east
Population
673,000
Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)
Abbreviation
“AD”
Open location code
7H25GF2X+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Awdal” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አውዳል”
- Arabic: “أودال”
- Arabic: “عدل”
- Azerbaijani: “Avdal”
- Basque: “Awdal”
- Bengali: “আওদাল”
- Bulgarian: “Аудал”
- Catalan: “Awdal”
- Cebuano: “Gobolka Awdal”
- Chinese: “奥达勒”
- Chinese: “奥达勒州”
- Chinese: “奧達勒州”
- Czech: “Awdal”
- Danish: “Awdal”
- Dutch: “Awdal”
- Esperanto: “Awdal”
- Finnish: “Awdal”
- French: “Awdal”
- Georgian: “ავდალის რეგიონი”
- German: “Awdal”
- Greek: “Αουντάλ”
- Hausa: “Awdal”
- Hungarian: “Awdal”
- Indonesian: “Awdal”
- Italian: “Adal”
- Japanese: “アウダル”
- Japanese: “アウダル州”
- Javanese: “Awdal”
- Kazakh: “Awdal”
- Kirghiz: “Awdal”
- Korean: “아우달”
- Korean: “아우달주”
- Literary Chinese: “奧達勒州”
- Macedonian: “Аудал”
- Malay: “Awdal”
- Norwegian: “Awdal”
- Oromo: “Awdal”
- Panjabi: “ਅਵਦਾਲ”
- Persian: “اودال”
- Polish: “Awdal”
- Portuguese: “Awdal”
- Pushto: “اودال”
- Russian: “Авдал”
- Russian: “Аудаль”
- Sinhala: “අවුදල් කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
- Somali: “Awdal”
- Somali: “Gobolka Awdal”
- Spanish: “Awdal”
- Spanish: “Región de Awdal”
- Swahili: “Awdal”
- Swedish: “Awdal”
- Tajik: “Awdal”
- Tatar: “Awdal”
- Thai: “แคว้นเอาดัล”
- Turkish: “Adal”
- Ukrainian: “Авдал”
- Urdu: “عدل علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Awdal”
- Wu Chinese: “奥达勒州”
- Yue Chinese: “奧達勒”
- Zulu: “Awdal”
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