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Gedo

Gedo is an administrative province of . This region is the second largest region in Somalia; the only region with two rivers and two international borders. Gedo has seven districts within its regional administration system.
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is a port city in the southern province of . It is the de facto capital of the autonomous Jubaland region. The city is situated 528 kilometres southwest of the capital , near the mouth of the , where it empties into the Indian Ocean.

is a city in Gedo, Southern Somalia. It is the capital of the District. The town sits in a bend of the Juba River, where the watercourse flows down from north to south in a horseshoe shape.

is a city of 950,000 people in Gedo region. It is a border town and business gateway to Kenya and Ethiopia.

Gedo

Latitude of center
3° north
Longitude of center
42° east
Population
508,000
Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)
Abbreviation
“GD”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 43528040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
58802
Wiki­data ID
Q856719
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Gedo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جدو”
  • Arabic: “جوبا الوسطى‎”
  • Basque: “Gedo”
  • Bengali: “গেডো”
  • Bulgarian: “Гедо”
  • Catalan: “Gedo”
  • Cebuano: “Gobolka Gedo”
  • Chinese: “盖多州”
  • Chinese: “蓋多”
  • Chinese: “蓋多州”
  • Czech: “Gedo”
  • Danish: “Geedo”
  • Dutch: “Gedo”
  • Esperanto: “Gedo”
  • Finnish: “Gedo”
  • French: “Gedo”
  • Georgian: “გედოს რეგიონი”
  • German: “Gedo”
  • German: “SO-GD”
  • Greek: “Γκέντο”
  • Gujarati: “ગેડો”
  • Hindi: “गेडो”
  • Indonesian: “Gedo”
  • Italian: “Gedo”
  • Italian: “Ghedo”
  • Japanese: “ゲド州”
  • Javanese: “Gedo”
  • Kannada: “ಗೆಡೋ”
  • Korean: “게도주”
  • Latvian: “Gedo”
  • Literary Chinese: “蓋多州”
  • Lithuanian: “Gedas”
  • Malay: “Gedo”
  • Marathi: “गेडो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gedo”
  • Norwegian: “Gedo”
  • Persian: “جدو”
  • Polish: “Gedo”
  • Portuguese: “Gedo”
  • Russian: “Гедо”
  • Sinhala: “ගෙඩෝ කලාපය, සෝමාලියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ගෙඩෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Gedo”
  • Slovenian: “SO-GD”
  • Somali: “Gedo”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Gedo”
  • Spanish: “Gedo”
  • Spanish: “Región de Gedo”
  • Swahili: “Gedo”
  • Swedish: “Gedo, Somalia”
  • Swedish: “Gedo”
  • Tamil: “ஜெடோ”
  • Telugu: “గెడో”
  • Thai: “แคว้นเกดอ”
  • Turkish: “Gedo”
  • Ukrainian: “Гедо”
  • Urdu: “جدو”
  • Vietnamese: “Gedo”
  • Yue Chinese: “蓋多”
  • Zulu: “Gedo, Somaliya”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Gedo”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.