Somalia
Southern Somalia
Bay

Baidoa

Baidoa is the largest city in and the state capital of Bay Region, with a population of 1.2 million in 2022. Baidoa is a war zone, so travel here is dangerous.
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  • Type: City with 130,000 residents
  • Description: city in Somalia
  • Also known as: “Baidabho”, “Baydhabo”, “Iscia Baidoa”, “Isha Baydabo”, “Isha Baydhaba”, and “Isha Baydhabo”

Baidoa

Latitude
3.12° or 3° 7′ 12″ north
Longitude
43.6445° or 43° 38′ 40″ east
Population
130,000
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
IATA airport code
BIB
United Nations Location Code
SO BIB
Open location code
6HM54J9V+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 35926758
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
64536
Wiki­data ID
Q506578
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Baidoa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيدوا”
  • Asturian: “Baidoa”
  • Bengali: “বাইদোয়া”
  • Catalan: “Baidoa”
  • Catalan: “Baydhabo”
  • Cebuano: “Baidoa”
  • Chinese: “拜多亚”
  • Chinese: “拜多亞”
  • Chinese: “拜多阿”
  • Chinese: “拜達伯”
  • Czech: “Baidoa”
  • Czech: “Baydhabo”
  • Danish: “Baidoa”
  • Dutch: “Baidoa”
  • Dutch: “Baidooa”
  • Dutch: “Baydabo”
  • Dutch: “Baydhabo”
  • Esperanto: “Baidoa”
  • Estonian: “Baidoa”
  • Estonian: “Baydhabo”
  • Finnish: “Baidoa”
  • Finnish: “Baiodoa”
  • French: “Baidoa”
  • French: “Baydhabo”
  • Georgian: “ბაიდოა”
  • German: “Baidabo”
  • German: “Baidoa”
  • German: “Baydabo”
  • German: “Baydhabo”
  • Greek: “Μπαϊντόα”
  • Gujarati: “બેડોઆ”
  • Hindi: “बैडौआ”
  • Hungarian: “Baidoa”
  • Hungarian: “Baydhabo”
  • Igbo: “Baidoa”
  • Indonesian: “Baidoa”
  • Italian: “Baidoa”
  • Italian: “Baydabo”
  • Italian: “Baydhabo”
  • Japanese: “バイダボ”
  • Japanese: “バイドア”
  • Japanese: “日本語”
  • Javanese: “Baidoa”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಡೊವ”
  • Korean: “바이다보”
  • Latvian: “Baidoa”
  • Lithuanian: “Baidoa”
  • Malay: “Baidoa”
  • Marathi: “बॅडोआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baidoa”
  • Norwegian: “Baidoa”
  • Persian: “بیدوا”
  • Polish: “Baidoa”
  • Polish: “Bajdabu”
  • Polish: “Baydhabo”
  • Portuguese: “Baidoa”
  • Romanian: “Baidoa”
  • Russian: “Байдабо”
  • Russian: “Байдоа”
  • Scots: “Baidoa”
  • Sinhala: “බායිඩොවා”
  • Somali: “Baydhabo”
  • Spanish: “Baidoa”
  • Swahili: “Baidoa”
  • Swedish: “Baidoa”
  • Swedish: “Baydhabo”
  • Tamil: “பைடோயா”
  • Telugu: “బైడోవా”
  • Thai: “บัยดาบอ”
  • Turkish: “Baydabo”
  • Ukrainian: “Байдабо”
  • Ukrainian: “Байдоа”
  • Urdu: “بیدوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Baidoa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baidoa”
  • Zulu: “Baidoa”

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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 “Baidoa”. Photo: AMISOM Public Information, CC0.