Banaadir

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administrative region coastal region

Banaadir is a coastal region in southeastern Somalia that encompasses the capital city, Mogadishu, and serves as a key political and economic center of the country.

Aliases (4)

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative region →
coastal region →
administrativeStatus region-level administrative unit of Somalia →
bordersBodyOfWater Indian Ocean →
capital Mogadishu →
climate arid to semi-arid →
contains Mogadishu →
country Somalia →
governingBody Banaadir Regional Administration →
hasAirport Aden Adde International Airport →
hasEconomicActivity port-related commerce →
services →
trade →
hasEthnicGroup Somali people →
hasExecutiveRole seat of the Office of the President of Somalia →
hasFunction administrative region for the capital city →
hasHistoricalName Benadir →
hasHistoricalRole historic coastal trading region →
hasJudicialRole location of key national courts of Somalia →
hasLegislativeRole seat of the Federal Parliament of Somalia →
hasMajorPort Port of Mogadishu →
hasRole key economic center of Somalia →
key political center of Somalia →
seat of the Federal Government of Somalia →
hasSecurityRole center of federal security institutions of Somalia →
includesSettlement Afgooye →
Balad →
Mogadishu →
isEconomicCenterOf Somalia →
isPoliticalCenterOf Somalia →
knownFor Mogadishu →
surface form: "port of Mogadishu"
languageUsed Arabic →
Benadiri Somali →
surface form: "Somali"
locatedIn southeastern Somalia →
locatedInContinent Africa →
locatedInRegion Horn of Africa →
locatedOnCoastOf Indian Ocean →
partOf Somalia →
surface form: "Federal Republic of Somalia"
religion Islam →
timeZone East Africa Time →
usesCurrency Somali shilling →
utcOffset +3 →

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Somali → hasDialect → Banaadir →
this entity surface form: "Benaadir"
Mogadishu → historicalRegion → Banaadir →
this entity surface form: "Benadir"
Mogadishu → isSeatOf → Banaadir →
this entity surface form: "Banaadir region"
this entity surface form: "Banaadir region"
this entity surface form: "Banaadir region"
Villa Somalia → locatedIn → Banaadir →
this entity surface form: "Banaadir region"
Mogadishu → locatedInRegion → Banaadir →
Mogadishu → locatedOnCoastOf → Banaadir →
this entity surface form: "Benadir coast"