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”, “Baidabo”, “Baidooa”, “Baiodoa”, “Bajdabu”, “Baydhabo بيدوا”, “Iscia Baidoa”, “Isha Baydabo”, “Isha Baydhaba”, “Isha Baydhabo”, “バイダボ”, “拜多阿”, and “拜達伯”

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
UN/LOCODE
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 Amharic to Zulu—“Baidoa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባይዶአ”
  • Arabic: “بيدوا”
  • Asturian: “Baidoa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baidoa”
  • Basque: “Baydhabo”
  • Bengali: “বাইডোয়া”
  • Bengali: “বাইদোয়া”
  • Catalan: “Baidoa”
  • Cebuano: “Baidoa”
  • Chinese: “拜多亚”
  • Chinese: “拜多亞”
  • Czech: “Baidoa”
  • Danish: “Baidoa”
  • Dutch: “Baidoa”
  • Esperanto: “Baidoa”
  • Estonian: “Baydhabo”
  • Finnish: “Baidoa”
  • French: “Baidoa”
  • Georgian: “ბაიდოა”
  • German: “Baidoa”
  • Greek: “Μπαϊντόα”
  • Gujarati: “બેડોઆ”
  • Hausa: “Baidoa”
  • Hindi: “बैडौआ”
  • Hindi: “बैदोआ”
  • Hungarian: “Baydhabo”
  • Igbo: “Baidoa”
  • Indonesian: “Baidoa”
  • Italian: “Baidoa”
  • Japanese: “バイドア”
  • Japanese: “日本語”
  • Javanese: “Baidoa”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಡೊವ”
  • Kazakh: “Байдоа”
  • Kirghiz: “Байдоа”
  • Korean: “바이다보”
  • Latvian: “Baidoa”
  • Lithuanian: “Baidoa”
  • Malay: “Baidoa”
  • Marathi: “बॅडोआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baidoa”
  • Norwegian: “Baidoa”
  • Oromo: “Baidoa”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਦੋਆ”
  • Persian: “بیدوا”
  • Persian: “بیدوه”
  • Polish: “Baydhabo”
  • Portuguese: “Baidoa”
  • Pushto: “بیڈوہ”
  • Romanian: “Baidoa”
  • Russian: “Байдабо”
  • Russian: “Байдоа”
  • Scots: “Baidoa”
  • Sinhala: “බායිඩොවා”
  • Somali: “Baydhabo”
  • Spanish: “Baidoa”
  • Swahili: “Baidoa”
  • Swedish: “Baidoa”
  • Tajik: “Байдоа”
  • Tamil: “பைடோயா”
  • Tatar: “Байдоа”
  • Telugu: “బైడోవా”
  • Thai: “บัยดาบอ”
  • Turkish: “Baidoa”
  • Turkish: “Baydabo”
  • Ukrainian: “Байдабо”
  • Ukrainian: “Байдоа”
  • Urdu: “بیدوا”
  • Uzbek: “Baidoa”
  • Vietnamese: “Baidoa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baidoa”
  • Zulu: “Baidoa”

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