Sanaag
Sanag is an administrative region in north eastern Somaliland. Control is divided between Khatumo in the center district, Puntland the eastern district and Somaliland in the western district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Erigavo and Daallo Mountain.
Erigavo
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Erigabo, Ceerigaabo in Somali, is a several-century old city in the northern Sanaagh region of Somaliland, an independent nation within Somalia. Daallo Mountain, one of the most visited national parks in Somaliland is just miles away from the city.
Daallo Mountain
Photo: Abukar Musa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Daallo Mountain is a national park in the eastern Sanaag region of Somaliland. 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
- Type: Region with 544,000 residents
- Description: Region of Waqooyibari state
- Also known as: “Province of Sanaag”, “Sanaag Region”, “Sanaag, Waqooyibari”, “Sinad”, and “Snaq”
- Categories: region of Somalia, Region of Waqooyibari, and locality
- Location: Khatumo, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.3505° or 10° 21′ 2″ northLongitude
47.5333° or 47° 32′ eastPopulation
544,000Elevation
1,325 metres (4,347 feet)Abbreviation
“SG”Open location code
7H299G2M+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 2208325472OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sanaag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سناج”
- Armenian: “Սանագ”
- 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”
- Indonesian: “Sanaag”
- Italian: “Sanag”
- Japanese: “サナーグ”
- Japanese: “サナーグ州”
- Korean: “사나그”
- Korean: “사나그주”
- Persian: “سناج (سومالی)”
- Persian: “سناج”
- Polish: “Sanaag”
- Portuguese: “Sanaag”
- Russian: “Санааг”
- Russian: “Санаг”
- Sinhala: “සනාග් කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Sanaag”
- Somali: “Sanaag”
- Spanish: “Región de Sanaag”
- Spanish: “Sanaag”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Sanaag”
- Swedish: “Sanaag”
- Thai: “แคว้นซานาก”
- Turkish: “Sanag”
- Ukrainian: “Санааг”
- Urdu: “سناج”
- Yue Chinese: “薩納格”
- Zulu: “Sanaag”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Sanaag”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.