Sool
Sool is an administrative region. It borders Togdheer to the west, Sanaag to the north, Ethiopia to the south, and Nugal and Bari to the east. Its capital city is Las Anod.
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Sool
- Type: region of Somalia with 327,000 residents
- Description: province of Waqooyi-bari, Somalia
- Also known as: “Gobolka sool”, “Regione di Sool”, “SO”, “Sool Region”, “Sool, Waqooyi-bari”, and “Суул”
- Neighbors: Ethiopia and Puntland
- Location: Khatumo, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.6667° or 8° 40′ north
Longitude
47.5° or 47° 30′ east
Population
327,000
Elevation
555 metres (1,821 feet)
Abbreviation
“SL”
Open location code
6HW9MG82+M2
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Sool” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሱል”
- Arabic: “سول”
- Arabic: “صول”
- Azerbaijani: “Sool”
- Basque: “Sool”
- Bavarian: “Sool”
- Bengali: “সোল”
- Bulgarian: “Сол”
- Catalan: “Sool”
- Cebuano: “Gobolka Sool”
- Chinese: “索勒州”
- Chinese: “苏尔”
- Chinese: “苏尔州”
- Chinese: “蘇爾州”
- Czech: “Sool”
- Danish: “Sool”
- Dutch: “Sool”
- Esperanto: “Sool”
- Finnish: “Sool”
- French: “Sool”
- Georgian: “სოლის რეგიონი”
- German: “Sool”
- Hausa: “Sool”
- Indonesian: “Sool, Somalia”
- Italian: “Sol”
- Italian: “Sool”
- Japanese: “スール州”
- Japanese: “ソール”
- Javanese: “Sool”
- Kazakh: “Sool”
- Kirghiz: “Sool”
- Korean: “솔주”
- Malay: “Sool”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sool”
- Norwegian: “Sool”
- Oromo: “Sool”
- Panjabi: “ਸੂਲ”
- Persian: “سول (سومالی)”
- Persian: “سول”
- Polish: “Sool”
- Portuguese: “Sool”
- Pushto: “سول”
- Russian: “Соль”
- Sinhala: “සූල් කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Sool”
- Somali: “Gobolka Sool”
- Somali: “Sool”
- Spanish: “Región de Sool”
- Spanish: “Sool”
- Swahili: “Sool, Somalia”
- Swahili: “Sool”
- Swedish: “Sool”
- Tajik: “Sool”
- Tatar: “Sool”
- Thai: “แคว้นซอล”
- Turkish: “Sul”
- Ukrainian: “Сул”
- Urdu: “سول”
- Uzbek: “Sool”
- Yue Chinese: “索勒”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇爾 (索馬里)”
- Zulu: “Sool, ISomaliya”
- Zulu: “Sool, Waqooyibari”
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