Qoryoley
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Place details
- Locality
- Qoryooley قوريولي
- Region
- Shabeellaha Hoose شبيلي السفلى
- Country
- Soomaaliya الصومال
- Population
- 51,720
- Timezone
- Africa/Mogadishu
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Qoryoley
- Settlement.other_name
- Coriole, Coriolei, Koryoley, Qoreyole, Qoryolay
- Settlement.native_name
- QoryooleyQornyooley
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 2014 03 21 Qoryooley Capture-16 (13345336593).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Qoryoley after liberation in 2014
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Somalia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Somalia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lower Shabelle
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Qoriyoley District
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Seyd-Ali Ibrahim Aliyow
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Qoryooley
- Country
- Somalia
- Located in
- Lower Shebelle
- Population
- 7978
- Elevation
- 62
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Al-Shabaab
- Demographics
- Climate
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Qoryoley (, , ) is a town in the Lower Shebelle region of the South West State of Somalia. It is located 123 kilometers southwest of the capital city Mogadishu and 23 kilometers west of the coastal city of Merca.
==History== Qoryoley was named after a Somali man named Ahmed Qoryoley who founded the town before Somali independence.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qoryoley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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