Bosaso
Bosaso, historically known as Bender Qassim, is a city in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is the administrative capital of the Bosaso District and the principal commercial center of the Puntland regional state.
- Type: City with 74,300 residents
- Description: city in Puntland, Somalia
- Also known as: “Bender Qaasin”, “Bénder Qāsin”, “Bender Qassim”, and “Boosaaso بوصاصو”
- Historically known as: “Bandar Qasim”
Bosaso
- Categories: human settlement, administrative territorial entity, Harti inhabitation, and locality
- Location: Bari, Puntland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.2785° or 11° 16′ 43″ north
Longitude
49.18° or 49° 10′ 48″ east
Population
74,300
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
BSA
United Nations Location Code
SO BSA
Open location code
7H3F75HH+9X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Bosaso” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦሳሶ”
- Arabic: “بوساسو”
- Arabic: “بوساسوالصومالية”
- Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Asturian: “Bosaso”
- Azerbaijani: “Boosaaso”
- Belarusian: “Басасо”
- Bengali: “বোজাজু”
- Bengali: “বোসাসো”
- Bulgarian: “Босасо”
- Catalan: “Bandar Kasim”
- Catalan: “Bandar Kassim”
- Catalan: “Bandar Qasim”
- Catalan: “Bandar Qassim”
- Catalan: “Bender Kasim”
- Catalan: “Bender Kassim”
- Catalan: “Bender Qasim”
- Catalan: “Bender Qassim”
- Catalan: “Bosaso”
- Catalan: “Bossaso”
- Cebuano: “Bosaso”
- Chinese: “博萨索”
- Chinese: “博薩索”
- Croatian: “Boosaaso”
- Czech: “Boosaaso”
- Danish: “Boosaaso”
- Danish: “Bosaso”
- Dutch: “Bandar Kassim”
- Dutch: “Bandar Qasim”
- Dutch: “Bender Cassim”
- Dutch: “Bender Kassim”
- Dutch: “Bender Qaasim”
- Dutch: “Bender Qassim”
- Dutch: “Boosaso”
- Dutch: “Bosaso”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Esperanto: “Bosaso”
- Estonian: “Bender Cassim”
- Estonian: “Bender Qaasim”
- Estonian: “Bender Qassim”
- Estonian: “Boosaaso”
- Estonian: “Bosaso”
- Estonian: “Mosylon”
- Finnish: “Boosaaso”
- Finnish: “Bosaso”
- French: “Bosaso”
- French: “Bosasso”
- Galician: “Bosaso”
- Georgian: “ბოსასო”
- German: “Bender Cassim”
- German: “Bender Kassim”
- German: “Bender Qaasim”
- German: “Bender Qassim”
- German: “Boosaaso”
- German: “Bosaso”
- German: “Bosasso”
- Greek: “Μποσάσο”
- Gujarati: “બોસાસો”
- Hausa: “Boosaaso”
- Hebrew: “בוסאסו”
- Hindi: “बोसासो”
- Hungarian: “Boosaaso”
- Indonesian: “Boosaaso”
- Indonesian: “Bosaso”
- Irish: “Bosaso”
- Italian: “Bender Cassim”
- Italian: “Bosaso”
- Japanese: “ボサソ”
- Javanese: “Boosaaso”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಾಸೊ”
- Kazakh: “Босасо”
- Kirghiz: “Босасо”
- Korean: “보사소”
- Korean: “부사소”
- Latvian: “Bosaso”
- Lithuanian: “Bosasas”
- Malay: “Boosaaso”
- Malay: “Bosaso”
- Marathi: “बोस्यासो”
- Moksha: “Босаса”
- Moksha: “Босасо”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosaso”
- Norwegian: “Bosaso”
- Oromo: “Boosaaso”
- Panjabi: “ਬੋਸਾਸੋ”
- Persian: “بوساسو”
- Persian: “بوصاصو”
- Polish: “Boosaaso”
- Polish: “Bosaso”
- Polish: “Busasu”
- Portuguese: “Boosaaso”
- Portuguese: “Bosaso”
- Portuguese: “Bosasso”
- Pushto: “بوسیسو”
- Romanian: “Bosaso”
- Russian: “Босасо”
- Scots: “Bosaso”
- Silesian: “Boosaaso”
- Sinhala: “බෝසාසෝ”
- Slovenian: “Bosaso”
- Somali: “Boosaaso”
- Somali: “Bosaso”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوساسو”
- Spanish: “Boosaaso”
- Spanish: “Bosaso”
- Sranan Tongo: “Boosaaso”
- Swahili: “Boosaaso”
- Swedish: “Bosaso”
- Tajik: “Босасо”
- Tamil: “போசாசோ”
- Tatar: “Босасо”
- Telugu: “బసాసో”
- Thai: “บอซาซอ”
- Thai: “โบซาโซ”
- Turkish: “Boosaaso”
- Turkish: “Bosaso”
- Ukrainian: “Босасо”
- Urdu: “بوساسو”
- Uzbek: “Boosaaso”
- Vietnamese: “Bosaso”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bosaso”
- Western Frisian: “Bosaso”
- Zulu: “Bosaso”
- “Boosaaso”
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