El-Obeid

El-Obeid, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of , in . El-Obeid has about 429,000 residents.
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  • Type: City with 429,000 residents
  • Description: city and capital of North Kurdufan, Sudan
  • Also known as: ‘Ubêd”, “`Ubed”, “Al Obayyid”, “Al Ubayd”, “Al Ubayyiḑ”, “Al-‘Obêd”, “Al-`Obed”, “Al-Ubayyid”, “El Obeid”, “El Ubeiyad”, “Obeid”, “الأبيد”, “الأبيّض”, and “الوبيّد

El-Obeid

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
node 248948689
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
379003
Wiki­data ID
Q309475
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“El-Obeid” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: الأبي
  • Arabic: الأبيض
  • Arabic: الابيض
  • Arabic: العبيد
  • Armenian: Ալ-Ուբեյդ
  • Armenian: Էլ Օբեյդ (քաղաք)
  • Asturian: Al-Ubayyid
  • Azerbaijani: Əl-Ubeyd (şəhər)
  • Azerbaijani: Əl-Ubeyd
  • Basque: Al-Ubayyid
  • Bengali: আল-উবাইঈদ
  • 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-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
  • Hebrew: אל-אבייד
  • Hindi: अल ओबेद
  • Hungarian: El-Obeid
  • Indonesian: Al-Ubayyid
  • Irish: Al-Ubayyid
  • Italian: Al Ubayyid
  • Italian: Al-Ubayyid
  • Japanese: エル・オベイド
  • Japanese: オベイド
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್-ಉಬಯಿದ್ದ್
  • Korean: 알우바이드
  • Korean: 엘오베이드
  • Latvian: Elobeida
  • Lithuanian: Obeidas
  • Luxembourgish: Al-Ubayyid
  • 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
  • Persian: الابیض
  • Polish: Al-Ubajid
  • Polish: Al-Ubajjid
  • Polish: Al-Ubayyid
  • Polish: El Obeid
  • Polish: El-Obeid
  • Portuguese: Al Ubayyid
  • Portuguese: Al-Ubayyid
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tamil: அல்-உபாயிட்
  • Telugu: అల్-ఉబయ్యిద్
  • Thai: อัลอับยัฎ
  • Turkish: El obeid
  • Turkish: El Ubeyd
  • Turkish: El-Ubeyd
  • Ukrainian: Ель-Обейд
  • Urdu: الابیض
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El-Obeid”. Photo: محسن الفكي, CC BY-SA 3.0.