Berbera
Berbera is a large city in Somaliland. Popular golden beaches such as Bathaale and Batalaale have earned the city the nickname Beach City.
Photo: Siirski, Public domain.
- Type: City with 263,000 residents
- Description: city in the northwestern Berbera District of Somalia
- Also known as: “Barbara”, “Berbera بربرة”, “Berberah”, “Berbere”, “Malao”, “บาร์บารา”, “弼琶囉”, “拨拔力”, and “撥拔立”
Photo: Siirski, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: DP World Berbera New Port.
DP World Berbera New Port
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Berbera
- Categories: port city and locality
- Location: Woqooyi Galbeed, Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.4386° or 10° 26′ 19″ north
Longitude
45.0134° or 45° 0′ 48″ east
Population
263,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
BBO
UN/LOCODE
SO BBO
Open location code
7H27C2Q7+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Berbera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بربرة”
- Asturian: “Berbera”
- Basque: “Berbera”
- Belarusian: “Бербера”
- Bengali: “বেরবেরা”
- Bulgarian: “Бербера”
- Catalan: “Berbera”
- Cebuano: “Berbera”
- Chinese: “柏培拉”
- Croatian: “Berbera”
- Czech: “Berbera”
- Danish: “Berbera”
- Dutch: “Berbera”
- Esperanto: “Berbera”
- Finnish: “Berbera”
- French: “Berbera”
- Georgian: “ბერბერა”
- German: “Berbera”
- Greek: “Μπέρμπερα”
- Gujarati: “બર્બેરા”
- Hebrew: “ברברה”
- Hindi: “बेरबेरा”
- Hungarian: “Berbera”
- Indonesian: “Berbera”
- Italian: “Berbera”
- Japanese: “ベルベラ”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಬೆರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Berbera qalası”
- Kazakh: “Бербера қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Бербера”
- Kazakh: “بەربەرا قالاسى”
- Korean: “베르베라”
- Latin: “Berbera”
- Latvian: “Berbera”
- Lithuanian: “Berbera”
- Malay: “Berbera”
- Marathi: “बरबेरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Berbera”
- Norwegian: “Berbera”
- Persian: “بربره”
- Persian: “بربیرا”
- Polish: “Berbera”
- Portuguese: “Berbera”
- Romanian: “Berbera”
- Russian: “Бербера”
- Scots: “Berbera”
- Serbian: “Berbera”
- Serbian: “Бербера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Berbera”
- Sinhala: “බර්බෙරා”
- Slovenian: “Berbera”
- Somali: “Berbera”
- Spanish: “Berbera”
- Sranan Tongo: “Berbera”
- Swahili: “Berbera”
- Swedish: “Berbera”
- Tamil: “பேர்பேரா”
- Telugu: “బెర్ బెర”
- Thai: “เบร์เบรา”
- Turkish: “Berbera”
- Ukrainian: “Бербера”
- Urdu: “بربرہ”
- Uzbek: “Berbera”
- Vietnamese: “Berbera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Berbera”
- Western Frisian: “Berbera”
- Zulu: “Berbera”
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