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Jijiga

Jijiga is the capital city of , . It became the capital of the Somali Region in 1995 after it was moved from . Located in the with 75 km west of the border with , the city has an elevation of 1,634 metres above sea level.
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  • Type: City with 107,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Djigdjiga”, “Dzhidzhiga”, “Giggigga”, and “Jigjigga”

Jijiga

Latitude
9.3509° or 9° 21′ 3″ north
Longitude
42.8004° or 42° 48′ 1″ east
Population
107,000
Elevation
1,646 metres (5,400 feet)
IATA airport code
JIJ
United Nations Location Code
ET JIJ
Open location code
6HX49R22+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 298290931
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
333795
Wiki­data ID
Q755763
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Jijiga” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጂጂጋ”
  • Amharic: “ጅጅጋ”
  • Arabic: “جيجيجا”
  • Armenian: “Ջիջիգա”
  • Asturian: “Jijiga”
  • Basque: “Jijiga”
  • Belarusian: “Джыджыга”
  • Bengali: “জিজিগা”
  • Catalan: “Jijiga”
  • Cebuano: “Jijiga”
  • Chinese: “吉吉加”
  • Croatian: “Jijiga”
  • Czech: “Džidžiga”
  • Danish: “jijiga”
  • Danish: “Jijiga”
  • Dutch: “Jijiga”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيجيجا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝiĝiga”
  • Finnish: “Jijiga”
  • French: “Djidjiga”
  • French: “Jijiga”
  • Galician: “Jijiga”
  • German: “Djidjiga”
  • German: “Dschidschiga”
  • German: “Jigjiga”
  • German: “Jijiga”
  • Greek: “Τζιτζίγκα”
  • Gujarati: “જીજિગા”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יג’יגה”
  • Hebrew: “גיגיגה”
  • Hindi: “जिजिग”
  • Hungarian: “Jijiga”
  • Indonesian: “Jijiga”
  • Irish: “Jijiga”
  • Italian: “Giggiga”
  • Italian: “Jijiga”
  • Japanese: “ジジガ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಜಿಗ”
  • Korean: “지지가”
  • Latvian: “Džidžiga”
  • Latvian: “Džigdžiga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Jijiga”
  • Lithuanian: “Džidžiga”
  • Malay: “Jijiga”
  • Marathi: “जिजिगा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jijiga”
  • Norwegian: “Jijiga”
  • Persian: “جیجیگا”
  • Polish: “Dżidżiga”
  • Portuguese: “Djidjiga”
  • Portuguese: “Jijiga”
  • Romanian: “Jijiga”
  • Russian: “Джиджига”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džidžiga”
  • Shona: “Jijiga”
  • Silesian: “Dżidżiga”
  • Sinhala: “ජිජිගා”
  • Slovenian: “Dzidžiga”
  • Somali: “Jigjiga”
  • Spanish: “Jijiga”
  • Swahili: “Jijiga”
  • Swedish: “Jijiga”
  • Tamil: “ஜிஜிகா”
  • Telugu: “జిజీగా”
  • Thai: “จิจีก้า”
  • Turkish: “Jijiga”
  • Ukrainian: “Джиджига”
  • Urdu: “جیجیگا”
  • Venetian: “Giggiga”
  • Vietnamese: “Jijiga”
  • Zulu: “Jijiga”

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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 “Jijiga”. Photo: Ibnuisak, CC BY-SA 4.0.