Zeila
Zeila is a historic city in the north-western reaches of Somalia, in the autonomous republic of Somaliland.
- Type: Town with 25,000 residents
- Description: town in Awdal, Somaliland
- Also known as: “Avalitae”, “Seelaac”, “Séyla‘”, “Seylac”, “Zaila”, and “Zayla”
Zeila
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Awdal, Somaliland, Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.3535° or 11° 21′ 13″ north
Longitude
43.4747° or 43° 28′ 29″ east
Population
25,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7H359F3F+9V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Zeila” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዘይላ”
- Arabic: “زيلع”
- Asturian: “Zeila”
- Basque: “Zeila”
- Catalan: “Saylac”
- Catalan: “Zayla”
- Catalan: “Zeila”
- Catalan: “Zeylac”
- Cebuano: “Saylac”
- Chinese: “塞拉”
- Chinese: “泽拉”
- Chinese: “澤拉”
- Croatian: “Zeila”
- Czech: “Zeila”
- Dutch: “Zeila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيلع”
- Esperanto: “Zeila”
- Finnish: “Saylac”
- Finnish: “Zeila”
- French: “Saylac”
- French: “Zeila”
- French: “Zeïla”
- French: “Zéïla”
- French: “Zeilah”
- German: “Saylac”
- German: “Zaila”
- German: “Zeila”
- Hebrew: “זיילה”
- Hindi: “जेइला”
- Indonesian: “Zeila”
- Irish: “Zeila”
- Italian: “Saylac”
- Italian: “Zaila”
- Italian: “Zeila”
- Japanese: “ゼイラ”
- Korean: “제일라”
- Lithuanian: “Saila”
- Macedonian: “Зајла”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zeila”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zeila”
- Polish: “Saylac”
- Polish: “Zajla”
- Polish: “Zeila”
- Portuguese: “Saylac”
- Portuguese: “Zeila”
- Portuguese: “Zeilá”
- Romanian: “Zeila”
- Russian: “Зейла”
- Russian: “Сайла”
- Slovenian: “Zeila”
- Somali: “Saylac زيلع”
- Somali: “Saylac”
- Spanish: “Zeila”
- Sranan Tongo: “Saylac”
- Swahili: “Zeila”
- Swedish: “Saylac”
- Swedish: “Zeila”
- Turkish: “Zeila”
- Turkish: “Zeyla”
- Ukrainian: “Сайла”
- Urdu: “زيلع”
- Urdu: “زیلع”
- Zulu: “Zeila”
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