Khatumo
SSC–Khatumo is a region centred around the Darawiish community in northwestern Somalia. It declared itself an autonomous state in 2012. It grew out of the SSC State, which stands for Sool, Sanaag and Cayn. It was renamed Waqooyi Bari on 30 July 2025.
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Sool
Sool is a administrative region. It borders Togdheer to the west, Sanaag to the north, Ethiopia to the south, and Nugal and Bari to the east. Its capital city is Las Anod.
Sanaag
Sanag is an administrative region in north eastern Somaliland. Control is divided between Khatumo in the center district, Puntland the eastern district and Somaliland in the western district.
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Cayn
Cayn or Ayn is an administrative region that Puntland unilaterally declared to be established in the 2000s. However, there is Somaliland between Cayn and Puntland, and they do not directly border each other.Khatumo
- Type: administrative territorial entity with 2,500,000 residents
- Description: federal state in Somalia consisting of Sool, Sanaag & Cayn regions
- Also known as: “Khatumo State”, “North East State of Somalia”, “SSC-Maakhir”, “Waqooyi-Bari”, and “Waqooyibari”
- Neighbors: Puntland
- Categories: border city, historical country, and federal member state of Somalia
- Location: Somalia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
9.1333° or 9° 8′ north
Longitude of center
48° east
Population
2,500,000
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Khatumo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية خاتمة”
- Asturian: “Waqooyi-Bari”
- Bashkir: “Төньяҡ-көнсығыш (Сомали)”
- Basque: “Waqooyi-Bari”
- Catalan: “Estat de Khaatumo”
- Cebuano: “SSC-Khatumo”
- Chinese: “克哈圖莫”
- Chinese: “卡图莫”
- Croatian: “SSC-Khatumo”
- Dutch: “Khatumo”
- Dutch: “Waqooyi Bari State”
- Esperanto: “SSC-Khatumo”
- Finnish: “SSC-Khatumo”
- French: “État de Khatumo”
- French: “SSC-Khatumo”
- French: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Galician: “Administración SSC-Khatumo de Somalia”
- German: “Khatumo”
- German: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Greek: “ΣΣΚ Κάτω”
- Hebrew: “מדינת חתומו”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Khatumo”
- Italian: “Khatumo”
- Italian: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Japanese: “ソマリア・チャツモ国”
- Japanese: “チャツモ国”
- Kikuyu: “Katumũ”
- Kirghiz: “Хатумо”
- Korean: “카투모주”
- Lithuanian: “Chatumas”
- Persian: “استان خاتمه”
- Polish: “Khaatumo”
- Polish: “SSC-Khatumo”
- Polish: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Portuguese: “Estado do Nordeste da Somália”
- Portuguese: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Romanian: “Khatumo”
- Russian: “Государство Хатумо”
- Russian: “Сомалийское Государство Хатумо”
- Russian: “Хаатумо”
- Russian: “Хатумо”
- Serbian: “Hatumo”
- Serbian: “Хатумо”
- Slovenian: “Država Hatumo”
- Slovenian: “Hatumo”
- Slovenian: “SSC Hatumo”
- Somali: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Somali: “Waqooyibari”
- Spanish: “Estado del Noroeste de Somalia”
- Spanish: “Khatumo”
- Swahili: “Khatumo”
- Swedish: “SSC-Khatumo”
- Tatar: “Хатумо”
- Turkish: “Khaatumo”
- Turkish: “Waqooyi Bari”
- Ukrainian: “ССК Хатумо”
- Ukrainian: “Хатумо”
- Urdu: “ریاست خاتمہ”
- Vietnamese: “SSC Khatumo”
- Zulu: “SSC-Khatumo”
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