Bosaso
Bosaso, historically known as Bender Qassim is a city in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is the seat of the Bosaso District. Located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden, the municipality serves as the region's commercial capital and is a major seaport within the regional state of Puntland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 74,300 residents
- Description: city in Puntland, Somalia
- Also known as: “Bender Qaasin”, “Bénder Qāsin”, “Bender Qassim”, and “Boosaaso”
- Historically known as: “Bandar Qasim”
Bosaso
- Categories: human settlement, administrative territorial entity, Harti inhabitation, and locality
- Location: Bari, Puntland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.2785° or 11° 16′ 43″ northLongitude
49.18° or 49° 10′ 48″ eastPopulation
74,300Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
BSAUnited Nations Location Code
SO BSAOpen location code
7H3F75HH+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 43528250OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
64013Wikidata ID
Q331556
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Bosaso” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوساسو”
- Arabic: “بوساسوالصومالية”
- Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Belarusian: “Басасо”
- Bengali: “বোজাজু”
- 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: “Boosaaso”
- Catalan: “Bosaso”
- Catalan: “Bossaso”
- Cebuano: “Bosaso”
- Chinese: “Boosaaso”
- 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: “Boosaaso”
- Dutch: “Boosaso”
- Dutch: “Bosaso”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوصاصو”
- Esperanto: “Boosaaso”
- Esperanto: “Bosaso”
- Estonian: “Bender Cassim”
- Estonian: “Bender Qaasim”
- Estonian: “Bender Qassim”
- Estonian: “Boosaaso”
- Estonian: “Bosaso”
- Estonian: “Mosylon”
- Finnish: “Boosaaso”
- Finnish: “Bosaso”
- French: “Boosaaso”
- French: “Bosaso”
- French: “Bosasso”
- Galician: “Boosaaso”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “בוסאסו”
- Hindi: “बोसासो”
- Hungarian: “Boosaaso”
- Indonesian: “Bosaso”
- Irish: “Bosaso”
- Italian: “Bender Cassim”
- Italian: “Boosaaso”
- Italian: “Bosaso”
- Japanese: “ボサソ”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಾಸೊ”
- Korean: “보사소”
- Korean: “부사소”
- Latvian: “Bosaso”
- Lithuanian: “Bosasas”
- Malay: “Bosaso”
- Marathi: “बोस्यासो”
- Moksha: “Босаса”
- Moksha: “Босасо”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosaso”
- Norwegian: “Bosaso”
- Persian: “بوساسو”
- Persian: “بوصاصو”
- Polish: “Boosaaso”
- Polish: “Bosaso”
- Polish: “Busasu”
- Portuguese: “Boosaaso”
- Portuguese: “Bosaso”
- Portuguese: “Bosasso”
- Romanian: “Bosaso”
- Russian: “Босасо”
- Scots: “Bosaso”
- Silesian: “Boosaaso”
- Sinhala: “බෝසාසෝ”
- Slovenian: “Bosaso”
- Somali: “Boosaaso”
- Somali: “Bosaso”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوساسو”
- Spanish: “Bosaso”
- Sranan Tongo: “Boosaaso”
- Swahili: “Boosaaso”
- Swedish: “Boosaaso”
- Swedish: “Bosaso”
- Tamil: “போசாசோ”
- Telugu: “బసాసో”
- Thai: “บอซาซอ”
- Thai: “โบซาโซ”
- Turkish: “Bosaso”
- Ukrainian: “Босасо”
- Urdu: “بوساسو”
- Vietnamese: “Bosaso”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bosaso”
- Western Frisian: “Bosaso”
- Zulu: “Bosaso”
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