Bosaso
Bosaso, historically known as Bender Qassim or Badraan, is a city in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia in Puntland. 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: “Bandar Kasim”, “Bandar Kassim”, “Bandar Qassim”, “Bender Cassim”, “Bender Kasim”, “Bender Kassim”, “Bender Qaasim”, “Bender Qaasin”, “Bender Qasim”, “Bénder Qāsin”, “Bender Qassim”, “Boosaaso بوصاصو”, “Boosaso”, “Bossaso”, “Busasu”, “Mosylon”, “بوساسوالصومالية”, and “부사소”
- 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
UN/LOCODE
SO BSA
Open location code
7H3F75HH+9X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Bosaso” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦሳሶ”
- Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Asturian: “Bosaso”
- Azerbaijani: “Boosaaso”
- Belarusian: “Басасо”
- Bengali: “বোজাজু”
- Bengali: “বোসাসো”
- Bulgarian: “Босасо”
- Catalan: “Bosaso”
- Cebuano: “Bosaso”
- Chinese: “博萨索”
- Chinese: “博薩索”
- Croatian: “Boosaaso”
- Czech: “Boosaaso”
- Danish: “Boosaaso”
- Dutch: “Bosaso”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Esperanto: “Bosaso”
- Estonian: “Boosaaso”
- Finnish: “Boosaaso”
- Finnish: “Bosaso”
- French: “Bosaso”
- French: “Bosasso”
- Galician: “Bosaso”
- Georgian: “ბოსასო”
- 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: “Bosaso”
- Japanese: “ボサソ”
- Javanese: “Boosaaso”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಾಸೊ”
- Kazakh: “Босасо”
- Kirghiz: “Босасо”
- Korean: “보사소”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Boosaaso”
- Portuguese: “Bosaso”
- Pushto: “بوسیسو”
- Romanian: “Bosaso”
- Russian: “Босасо”
- Scots: “Bosaso”
- Silesian: “Boosaaso”
- Sinhala: “බෝසාසෝ”
- Slovenian: “Bosaso”
- Somali: “Boosaaso”
- 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”
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