Gedo
Gedo is an administrative province of Southern Somalia. 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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Luuq
Luuq is a city in Gedo, Southern Somalia. It is the capital of the Luuq District. The town sits in a bend of the Juba River, where the watercourse flows down from north to south in a horseshoe shape.Beled Hawo
Beled Hawo is a city of 950,000 people in Somalia's Gedo region. It is a border town and business gateway to Kenya and Ethiopia.Gedo
- Type: State with 508,000 residents
- Description: region of Somalia
- Also known as: “Gedo Region”, “Gedo جدو”, “Province of Gedo”, and “Upper Juba”
- Categories: region of Somalia and locality
- Location: Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
3° north
Longitude of center
42° east
Population
508,000
Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)
Abbreviation
“GD”
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Gedo” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ገዶ”
- Arabic: “جدو”
- Arabic: “جوبا الوسطى”
- Azerbaijani: “Qedo”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Gedo”
- Hindi: “गेडो”
- Indonesian: “Gedo”
- Italian: “Gedo”
- Italian: “Ghedo”
- Japanese: “ゲド”
- Japanese: “ゲド州”
- Javanese: “Gedo”
- Kannada: “ಗೆಡೋ”
- Kazakh: “Gedo”
- Kirghiz: “Gedo”
- Korean: “게도주”
- Latvian: “Gedo”
- Literary Chinese: “蓋多州”
- Lithuanian: “Gedas”
- Malay: “Gedo”
- Marathi: “गेडो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gedo”
- Norwegian: “Gedo”
- Oromo: “Gedo”
- Panjabi: “ਗੇਡੋ”
- Persian: “جدو”
- Persian: “گدو”
- Polish: “Gedo”
- Portuguese: “Gedo”
- Pushto: “گدو”
- 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”
- Tajik: “Gedo”
- Tamil: “ஜெடோ”
- Tatar: “Gedo”
- Telugu: “గెడో”
- Thai: “แคว้นเกดอ”
- Turkish: “Gedo”
- Ukrainian: “Гедо”
- Urdu: “جدو”
- Uzbek: “Gedo”
- Vietnamese: “Gedo”
- Yue Chinese: “蓋多”
- Zulu: “Gedo, Somaliya”
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