El Wak, Somalia
El Wak | |
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Town | |
  El Wak Location in Somalia | |
| Coordinates: 02°47′35″N 41°0′42″E / 2.79306°N 41.01167°E | |
| Country |  Somalia |
| Regional State |  Jubaland |
| Region | Gedo |
| District | El Wak |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
El Wak (Somali: Ceelwaaq) is a town located in the southwestern Gedo region of Jubaland.[1] Situated by the Somalia-Kenya border, it is 9 km away from El Wak, Kenya and just 4 km away from the international border. It is the seat of one of the region's seven districts.[2][3][4]
Etymology
The place name Ceelwaaq literally translates as 'God's well'. In the Afro-Asiatic Somali language, the word ceel means 'well', and waaq is an archaic Somali term for 'God'.[5]
Location
El Wak is situated in the El Wak District. It is bordered by the Bardera and Garbaharey districts on the east, and the Somali-inhabited North Eastern Province to the west.[6][7]
References
- ^ "Ceel Waaq". Ceel Waaq.
- ^ "Location of El Wak, Mandera County, Kenya" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia: "God's Wells" - where rain hasn't washed the crisis away - Kenya | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2006-06-29.
- ^ "OpenStreetMap". Ceelwaaq.
- ^ Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2001), p.65.
- ^ Kleynhans, Evert (2018). "The "apostles of terror": South Africa, the East African campaign, and the Battle of El Wak". Historia. 63 (2): 112–137. ISSN 0018-229X.
- ^ King, L. N. (1928). "The Work of the Jubaland Boundary Commission". The Geographical Journal. 72 (5): 420–435. ISSN 0016-7398.
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This page was edited by Abdikadar Dini. Born and raised in Elwak Somalia and currently living in USA.