El-Obeid

El Obeid, also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of , in . It is located within the Sheikan locality and under the former administrative structure within Sheikan District.
  • City with 429,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 573 metres (1,880 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code EBD
  • Description: city and capital of North Kurdufan, Sudan
  • Also known as
    “‘Ubêd”
    “Al Obayyid”
    “Al Ubayd”
    “Al Ubayyiḑ”
    “Al-‘Obêd”
    “El Ubeiyad”
    “Obeid”
    “الأبيد”
    “الأبيّض”
    “الوبيّد”

El-Obeid

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Latitude
13.1834° or 13° 11′ 0″ north
Longitude
30.2226° or 30° 13′ 21″ east
UN/LOCODE
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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