Jijiga
Jijiga is the capital city of Somali Region, Ethiopia. It became the capital of the Somali Region in 1995 after it was moved from Gode. Located in the Fafan Zone with 75 km west of the border with Somaliland, the city has an elevation of 1,634 metres above sea level.
- Type: City with 107,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Djigdjiga”, “Dzhidzhiga”, “Giggigga”, and “Jigjigga”
Jijiga
- Categories: big city, district of Ethiopia, and locality
- Location: Somali, Eastern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Northern Frisian: “Djidjiga”
- 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: “จิกจิกา”
- Turkish: “Jijiga”
- Ukrainian: “Джиджига”
- Urdu: “جیجیگا”
- Venetian: “Giggiga”
- Vietnamese: “Jijiga”
- Wolaytta: “Jiijjiga”
- Zulu: “Jijiga”
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