Hargeisa

Hargeisa is the capital of . It is one of the safest places in what the rest of the world still considers to be Somalia.
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  • Type: City with 1,960,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Somaliland
  • Also known as: “Hargaisa”, “Hargaysa”, “Hargeiysa”, “Hargesa”, “Hargeysa هرجيسا”, “Harghajsa”, and “Гаргейса”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Edna Adan Maternity Hospital and Hargeisa Stadium.

Hospital
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is a non-profit charity built in Hargeisa, Somaliland. It was founded by the autonomous northwestern region's former foreign minister and former first lady of , Edna Adan Ismail.

Stadium
, also known as Hargeysa National Stadium, is a multi-sports stadium and is used mostly for football matches and currently serves as the home of Somaliland national football team.

Photo: joepyrek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a monument in Hargeisa, the capital of . The memorial was set up to commemorate the Somaliland War of Independence, and is a symbol of struggle for the people of Somaliland.

Hargeisa

Latitude
9.5617° or 9° 33′ 42″ north
Longitude
44.0618° or 44° 3′ 43″ east
Population
1,960,000
Elevation
1,261 metres (4,137 feet)
IATA airport code
HGA
UN/LOCODE
SO HGA
Open location code
6HX6H366+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4298140251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
57289
Wiki­data ID
Q168652
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hargeisa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hargeisa”
  • Amharic: “ሃርገይሳ”
  • Arabic: “هرجيسا”
  • Arabic: “هرجيسة”
  • Armenian: “Հարգեյսա”
  • Asturian: “Hargeisa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hargeisa”
  • Basque: “Hargeisa”
  • Basque: “Hargeysa”
  • Belarusian: “Харгейса”
  • Bengali: “হারগেইসা”
  • Breton: “Hargeysa”
  • Bulgarian: “Харгейса”
  • Catalan: “Hargeisa”
  • Cebuano: “Hargeysa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەرگیسا”
  • Chechen: “Харгейса”
  • Chinese: “哈尔格萨 / 哈爾格薩”
  • Chinese: “哈尔格萨”
  • Chinese: “哈爾格薩”
  • Croatian: “Hargeisa”
  • Czech: “Hargeysa”
  • Danish: “Hargeysa”
  • Dutch: “Hargeisa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هرجيسا”
  • Esperanto: “Hargejso”
  • Estonian: “Hargeysa”
  • Finnish: “Hargeisa”
  • French: “Hargeisa”
  • Ga: “Hargeisa”
  • Galician: “Hargeisa”
  • Georgian: “ჰარგეისა”
  • German: “Hargeisa”
  • German: “Hargeysa”
  • Greek: “Χαργκέισα”
  • Gujarati: “હાર્ગીસી”
  • Haitian: “Hargeysa”
  • Hausa: “Hargeisa”
  • Hebrew: “הרגייסה”
  • Hindi: “हरगीसा”
  • Hindi: “हरगेसा”
  • Hungarian: “Hargeysa”
  • Icelandic: “Hargeisa”
  • Inari Sami: “Hargeisa”
  • Indonesian: “Hargeisa”
  • Interlingue: “Hargeisa”
  • Irish: “Hargeisa”
  • Italian: “Hargheisa”
  • Japanese: “ハルゲイサ”
  • Javanese: “Hargeisa”
  • Kannada: “ಹರ್ಗಿಸಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Xargeýsa qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Харгейса қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Харгейса”
  • Kazakh: “حارگەيسا قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Харгейса”
  • Korean: “하르게이사”
  • Kurdish: “Hargeisa”
  • Kurdish: “حارگەسا”
  • Latin: “Hargeysa”
  • Latvian: “Hargeisa”
  • Ligurian: “Hargeisa”
  • Literary Chinese: “哈爾格薩”
  • Lithuanian: “Hargeisa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hargeisa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hargeysa”
  • Malay: “Hargeisa”
  • Marathi: “हार्जेस”
  • Mazanderani: “هرگیسا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hargeisa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hargeisa”
  • Minangkabau: “Hargeisa”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰარგეისა”
  • Moksha: “Гаргэйса”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hargeysa”
  • Northern Luri: “ھارگیسا”
  • Northern Sami: “Hargeisa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hargeisa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hargeisa”
  • Norwegian: “Hargeisa”
  • Oromo: “Hargeisa”
  • Ossetian: “Харгейсæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਰਜੀਸਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਰਗੇਸਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Hargeisa”
  • Persian: “هرجیسا”
  • Persian: “هرجیسه”
  • Polish: “Hargejsa”
  • Portuguese: “Hargeisa”
  • Pushto: “هرجیسه”
  • Romanian: “Hargeisa”
  • Russian: “Харгейса”
  • Russian: “Харгейсе”
  • Sardinian: “Hargheisa”
  • Scots: “Hargeisa”
  • Serbian: “Hargeisa”
  • Serbian: “Харгеиса”
  • Serbian: “Харгејса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hargeisa”
  • Shona: “Hargeisa”
  • Silesian: “Hargejsa”
  • Sindhi: “هرگيسا”
  • Sinhala: “හාර්ගේයිසා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Hargeisa”
  • Slovenian: “Hargeisa”
  • Somali: “Hargeysa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرجیسا”
  • Spanish: “Hargeisa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Hargeysa”
  • Swahili: “Hargeisa”
  • Swedish: “Hargeisa”
  • Tajik: “Харгейса”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаргейса”
  • Tamil: “அர்கீசொ”
  • Tatar: “Харгейса”
  • Telugu: “హర్ గిస”
  • Thai: “ฮาร์เกย์ซา”
  • Turkish: “Hargeisa”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарґейса”
  • Ukrainian: “Харгейса”
  • Urdu: “هرجيسا”
  • Urdu: “ہرجيسا”
  • Urdu: “ہرجیسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Hargeisa”
  • Venetian: “Hargheisa”
  • Vietnamese: “Hargeisa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hargeisa”
  • Welsh: “Hargeisa”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہرجيسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈尔格萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈爾格薩”
  • Zulu: “Hargeisa”

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