Dongola

Dongola, also known as Urdu or New Dongola, is the capital of in , on the banks of the Nile. It should not be confused with , a now deserted medieval city located 80 km upstream on the opposite bank.
  • City with 56,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 226 metres (741 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DOG
  • Description: capital of the state of Northern in Sudan
  • Also known as
    “Al ‘Urdi”
    “Donkola”
    “New Dongola”

Dongola

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Latitude
19.1729° or 19° 10′ 22″ north
Longitude
30.4732° or 30° 28′ 23″ east
UN/LOCODE
SD DOG
Open location code
7GFG5FFF+47
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Dongola” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዶንጎላ”
  • Arabic: “دنقلا”
  • Asturian: “Dongola”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dongola”
  • Basque: “Dongola”
  • Belarusian: “Дангола”
  • Bengali: “ডাঙ্গলা”
  • Bengali: “ডোঙ্গোলা”
  • Breton: “Dongola”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Dongola”
  • Catalan: “Dongola”
  • Catalan: “Dongula”
  • Catalan: “Dunkula”
  • Catalan: “Dunqula”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Dongola”
  • Cebuano: “Dongola”
  • Chinese: “栋古拉”
  • Chinese: “棟古拉”
  • Czech: “Dongola”
  • Czech: “Dunqula”
  • Czech: “Dunqulah”
  • Danish: “Dongola”
  • Dutch: “Dongola”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دنقله”
  • Finnish: “Dongola”
  • Finnish: “Dunqula”
  • French: “Dongola”
  • French: “Dunqula”
  • German: “Donggola”
  • German: “Dongla”
  • German: “Dongola”
  • German: “Donqola”
  • German: “Dungola”
  • German: “Dungula”
  • German: “Dunqula”
  • German: “Dunqulā”
  • German: “Neu Donggola”
  • German: “Neu Dongla”
  • German: “Neu Dongola”
  • German: “Neu Donqola”
  • German: “Neu Dungola”
  • German: “Neu Dungula”
  • German: “Neu Dunqula”
  • German: “New Dongola”
  • Greek: “Ντόνγκολα”
  • Gujarati: “ડોંગોલા”
  • Hausa: “Dongola”
  • Hebrew: “קארמה”
  • Hindi: “डोंगोला”
  • Hindi: “दोँगोला”
  • Hungarian: “Dongola”
  • Indonesian: “Dongola”
  • Irish: “Dongola”
  • Italian: “Dongola”
  • Japanese: “ドンゴラ”
  • Javanese: “Dongola”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಂಗೋಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊಂಗೊಲ”
  • Kazakh: “Донгола”
  • Kirghiz: “Донгола”
  • Korean: “동골라”
  • Latvian: “Dongola”
  • Lithuanian: “Dongola”
  • Malay: “Dongola”
  • Marathi: “डोंगोला”
  • Mingrelian: “დონგოლა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dongola”
  • Norwegian: “Dongola”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dongola”
  • Oromo: “Dongola”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੋਂਗੋਲਾ”
  • Persian: “دنقلا”
  • Polish: “Dongola”
  • Polish: “Dunkula”
  • Polish: “Tungul”
  • Portuguese: “Dongola”
  • Pushto: “ډونګولا”
  • Romanian: “Dongola”
  • Russian: “Донгола”
  • Serbian: “Донгола”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dongola”
  • Sinhala: “ඩොන්ගොලා”
  • Slovenian: “Dongola”
  • Somali: “Dongola”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دنقلا”
  • Spanish: “Dongola”
  • Swahili: “Dongola”
  • Swedish: “Dongola”
  • Swedish: “Dunqula”
  • Swedish: “Dunqulah”
  • Tajik: “Донгола”
  • Tamil: “டோங்கோலா”
  • Tatar: “Донгола”
  • Telugu: “దొంగోలా”
  • Thai: “ดุนกุลา”
  • Turkish: “Dongola”
  • Ukrainian: “Донгола”
  • Urdu: “دنقلا”
  • Urdu: “دونجولا”
  • Urdu: “ڈونگولا”
  • Uzbek: “Dongola”
  • Vietnamese: “Dongola”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dongola”
  • Zulu: “Dongola, Sudan”
  • Zulu: “Dongola”

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