El-Obeid
El Obeid, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kordofan, in Sudan. It is located within the Sheikan locality and under the former administrative structure within Sheikan District.
- Type: City with 429,000 residents
- Description: city and capital of North Kurdufan, Sudan
- Also known as: “‘Ubêd”, “Al Obayyid”, “Al Ubayd”, “Al Ubayyiḑ”, “Al-‘Obêd”, “Al-Ubayyid”, “El Obeid”, “El Ubeiyad”, “Obeid”, “الأبيد”, “الأبيّض”, and “الوبيّد”
El-Obeid
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: North Kordofan, Kurdufan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.1834° or 13° 11′ 0″ north
Longitude
30.2226° or 30° 13′ 21″ east
Population
429,000
Elevation
573 metres (1,880 feet)
IATA airport code
EBD
United Nations Location Code
SD EBD
Open location code
7G5G56MF+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“El-Obeid” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኤል ኦቤድ”
- Arabic: “الأبي”
- Arabic: “الأبيض”
- Arabic: “الابيض”
- Arabic: “العبيد”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Ուբեյդ”
- Armenian: “Էլ Օբեյդ (քաղաք)”
- Asturian: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Azerbaijani: “El Obeid”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Ubeyd (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Ubeyd”
- Basque: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Bengali: “আল-উবাইঈদ”
- Bengali: “এল ওবেইদ”
- Breton: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Bulgarian: “Ал-Обейд”
- Bulgarian: “Ал-Убайид”
- Bulgarian: “Ел-Обейд”
- Bulgarian: “Обейд”
- Bulgarian: “Убайид”
- Catalan: “Al-Obeid”
- Catalan: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Catalan: “El Obeid”
- Cebuano: “El Obeid”
- Chinese: “欧拜伊德”
- Chinese: “歐拜伊德”
- Czech: “Al-Ubajjid”
- Czech: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Danish: “Al Ubayyid”
- Danish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Dutch: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Dutch: “El Obeid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الابيض”
- Esperanto: “El Obeid”
- Estonian: “Al-Ubayyiḑ”
- Finnish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Finnish: “El Obeid”
- French: “Al Obeid”
- French: “Al Ubayyid”
- French: “Al-Obeid”
- French: “Al-Ubayyid”
- French: “El Obeid”
- French: “El-Obeid”
- Galician: “El Obeid”
- German: “Al-Ubayid”
- German: “Al-Ubayyid”
- German: “El Obeid”
- German: “El Obied”
- German: “El-Obeid”
- Greek: “Αλ Ουμπαΐντ”
- Gujarati: “અલ-ઉબાયિદ”
- Hausa: “El Obeid”
- Hebrew: “אל-אבייד”
- Hindi: “अल ओबेद”
- Hindi: “एल ओबेद”
- Hungarian: “El-Obeid”
- Indonesian: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Indonesian: “El Obeid”
- Irish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Italian: “Al Ubayyid”
- Italian: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Japanese: “エル・オベイド”
- Japanese: “エルオベイド”
- Japanese: “オベイド”
- Javanese: “El Obeid”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್-ಉಬಯಿದ್ದ್”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Обейд”
- Kirghiz: “Эль-Обейд”
- Korean: “알우바이드”
- Korean: “엘오베이드”
- Latvian: “Elobeida”
- Lithuanian: “Obeidas”
- Luxembourgish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Malay: “El Obeid”
- Malay: “El-Obeid”
- Maltese: “El Obeid”
- Marathi: “अल-उबेयिड”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ობეიდი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Norwegian: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Norwegian: “El-Obeid”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Obeid”
- Oromo: “El Obeid”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲ ਓਬੇਦ”
- Persian: “الابیض”
- Polish: “Al-Ubajid”
- Polish: “Al-Ubajjid”
- Polish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Polish: “El Obeid”
- Polish: “El-Obeid”
- Portuguese: “Al Ubayyid”
- Portuguese: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Portuguese: “El Obeid”
- Pushto: “الابيض”
- Quechua: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Romanian: “Al Ubayyid”
- Russian: “Эль-Обейд”
- Serbian: “El Obeid”
- Serbian: “Ел Обеид”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Obeid”
- Silesian: “Al-Ubajjid”
- Sinhala: “අල් උබෙයිඩ්”
- Slovenian: “El Obeid”
- Somali: “El Obeid”
- South Azerbaijani: “الابیض”
- Spanish: “Al Ubayyid”
- Spanish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Spanish: “El Obeid”
- Swahili: “El Obeid”
- Swedish: “Al Ubayyid”
- Swedish: “Al-Obeid”
- Swedish: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Swedish: “El Obeid”
- Tajik: “Ал-Убайид”
- Tajik: “Эль-Обейд”
- Tamil: “அல்-உபாயிட்”
- Tatar: “Эль-Обейд”
- Telugu: “అల్-ఉబయ్యిద్”
- Thai: “อัลอับยัฎ”
- Turkish: “El obeid”
- Turkish: “El Obeid”
- Turkish: “El Ubeyd”
- Turkish: “El-Ubeyd”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Обейд”
- Urdu: “الابیض”
- Uzbek: “El Obeid”
- Venetian: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Vietnamese: “Al-Ubayyid”
- Vietnamese: “El-Obeid”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al-Ubayyid”
- Waray (Philippines): “El-Obeid”
- Welsh: “El-Obeid”
- Zulu: “El-Obeid”
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