Sanaag

Sanag is an administrative region in north eastern Somaliland. Control is divided between in the center district, the eastern district and in the western district.
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Erigabo, Ceerigaabo in Somali, is a several-century old city in the northern Sanaagh region of , an independent nation within . , one of the most visited national parks in Somaliland is just miles away from the city.

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is a national park in the eastern Sanaag region of . It is a part of the Ogo Mountains. Daallo has historically been inhabited by the ancient ancestors of most of the original Somali tribes.

Sanaag

Latitude
10.3505° or 10° 21′ 2″ north
Longitude
47.5333° or 47° 32′ east
Population
544,000
Elevation
1,325 metres (4,347 feet)
Abbreviation
“SG”
Open location code
7H299G2M+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2208325472
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
52187
Wiki­data ID
Q751387
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Sanaag” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳናግ”
  • Arabic: “سناج”
  • Arabic: “محافظة سناج”
  • Armenian: “Սանագ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sanaaq”
  • Basque: “Sanaag”
  • Bulgarian: “Санааг”
  • Catalan: “Sanaag”
  • Cebuano: “Gobolka Sanaag”
  • Chinese: “萨纳格”
  • Chinese: “萨纳格州”
  • Chinese: “薩納格”
  • Chinese: “薩那格州”
  • Czech: “Sanaag”
  • Danish: “Sanaag”
  • Dutch: “Sanaag”
  • Esperanto: “Sanaag”
  • Finnish: “Sanaag”
  • French: “Sanaag”
  • Galician: “Sanaag”
  • Georgian: “სანაგის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Sanaag”
  • Hausa: “Sanaag”
  • Indonesian: “Sanaag”
  • Italian: “Sanag”
  • Japanese: “サナーグ”
  • Japanese: “サナーグ州”
  • Javanese: “Sanaag”
  • Kazakh: “Sanaag”
  • Kirghiz: “Sanaag”
  • Korean: “사나그”
  • Korean: “사나그주”
  • Malay: “Sanaag”
  • Malay: “Sanag”
  • Oromo: “Sanaag”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਨਾਗ”
  • Persian: “سناج (سومالی)”
  • Persian: “سناج”
  • Persian: “سناغ”
  • Polish: “Sanaag”
  • Portuguese: “Sanaag”
  • Pushto: “سناغ”
  • Russian: “Санааг”
  • Russian: “Санаг”
  • Sinhala: “සනාග් කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
  • Slovenian: “Sanaag”
  • Somali: “Sanaag”
  • Spanish: “Región de Sanaag”
  • Spanish: “Sanaag”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Sanaag”
  • Swahili: “Sanaag”
  • Swedish: “Sanaag”
  • Tajik: “Sanaag”
  • Tatar: “Sanaag”
  • Thai: “แคว้นซานาก”
  • Turkish: “Sanag”
  • Ukrainian: “Санааг”
  • Urdu: “سناج”
  • Uzbek: “Sanaag”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩納格”
  • Zulu: “Sanaag”

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