Berbera

Berbera is a large city in . Popular golden beaches such as Bathaale and Batalaale have earned the city the nickname Beach City.
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  • Type: City with 263,000 residents
  • Description: city in the northwestern Berbera District of Somalia
  • Also known as: Berberah” and “Berbere
Photo: Siirski, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Berbera Public Library and DP World Berbera New Port.

Library
, is the main public library in the city centre of Berbera, . The first library in Berbera was opened in 2014. It was later expanded and is now known as the .

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , also known as DP World Berbera, is the new port of the DP World in the city of Berbera and its only branch in Republic of Somaliland.

Berbera

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
United Nations Location Code
SO BBO
Open location code
7H27C2Q7+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291580881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
64435
Wiki­data ID
Q191718
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Satellite Map

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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: 弼琶囉
  • Chinese: 拨拔力
  • Chinese: 撥拔立
  • Chinese: 柏培拉
  • Croatian: Berbera
  • Czech: Berbera
  • Danish: Berbera
  • Dutch: Berbera
  • Esperanto: Berbera
  • Finnish: Berbera
  • French: Berbera
  • Georgian: ბერბერა
  • German: Berbera
  • German: Malao
  • 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: Barbara
  • Somali: Berbera
  • Spanish: Berbera
  • Sranan Tongo: Berbera
  • Swahili: Berbera
  • Swedish: Berbera
  • Tamil: பேர்பேரா
  • Telugu: బెర్ బెర
  • Thai: บาร์บารา
  • Thai: เบร์เบรา
  • Turkish: Berbera
  • Ukrainian: Бербера
  • Urdu: بربرہ
  • Uzbek: Berbera
  • Vietnamese: Berbera
  • Waray (Philippines): Berbera
  • Western Frisian: Berbera
  • Zulu: Berbera

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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 “Berbera”. Photo: Bdell555, CC0.