Woqooyi Galbeed
Woqooyi Galbeed, sometimes known as Maroodi Jeex, is one of the administrative regions of Somaliland. Containing Somaliland's capital and two largest cities, it forms the most populous and important region in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Hargeisa
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Hargeisa is the capital of Somaliland. It is one of the safest places in what the rest of the world still considers to be Somalia.
Berbera
Berbera is a large city in Somaliland. Popular golden beaches such as Bathaale and Batalaale have earned the city the nickname Beach City.
Woqooyi Galbeed
- Type: Region with 1,240,000 residents
- Description: region of Somaliland
- Also known as: “Hargeisa”, “Marodi Jeh”, “Maroodi Jeeh”, “Maroodi Jeex”, “North-West”, “North-Western Region”, “Waqooye”, “Waqooyi Galbeed Region”, and “West Galbeed”
- Categories: region of Somaliland and locality
- Location: Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10° northLongitude
44.5° or 44° 30′ eastPopulation
1,240,000Elevation
921 metres (3,022 feet)Abbreviation
“WG”Open location code
7H262G22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 43528169OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Woqooyi Galbeed” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وقويي جالبيد”
- Arabic: “وقويي جالبيد”
- Asturian: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Basque: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Bulgarian: “Вокои Галбеед”
- Catalan: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Cebuano: “Gobolka Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Chinese: “沃戈伊加勒貝德”
- Chinese: “沃戈伊加勒貝德州”
- Chinese: “沃戈伊加勒贝德州”
- Chinese: “西北州”
- Chinese: “馬羅迪傑赫州”
- Chinese: “马罗迪杰赫州”
- Danish: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Dutch: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Dutch: “Woqooyi-Galbeed”
- Esperanto: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Finnish: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- French: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Georgian: “ვოკუი-გალბიდის რეგიონი”
- German: “SO-WG”
- German: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Hebrew: “מארודי ג’יח”
- Hebrew: “מרודי ג’יח”
- Indonesian: “Maroodi Jeex”
- Italian: “Nordovest”
- Italian: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Japanese: “マローディ・ジェーハ”
- Japanese: “北部ガルベード州”
- Korean: “워코이갈베드주”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Norwegian: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Persian: “مارودی جیکس”
- Portuguese: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Russian: “Вокуй-Гальбид”
- Russian: “Мароди Чех”
- Russian: “Северо-Западная провинция”
- Russian: “Уокойи-Гальбид”
- Scots: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Sinhala: “මරූඩි ජී කලාපය, සෝමාලිලන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Maroodi Jeeh”
- Somali: “Gobolka Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Somali: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Spanish: “Región de Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Spanish: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Swahili: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Swedish: “Woqooye Galbeed”
- Swedish: “Woqooyi Galbeed”
- Thai: “แคว้นมารอดีเจห์”
- Thai: “แคว้นวอกอยีกัลเบด”
- Turkish: “Woqoyi Galbed”
- Ukrainian: “Вокуй-Гальбід”
- Urdu: “وقویی جالبید”
- Yue Chinese: “沃戈伊加勒貝德”
- Zulu: “Maroodi Jeex”
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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 “Woqooyi Galbeed”. Photo: joepyrek, CC BY-SA 2.0.