Puntland
Puntland is a region in northeastern Somalia, which declared itself an autonomous state in the late 1990s. It borders SSC-Khatumo to the west, Ethiopia to the southwest and the rest of Somalia to the south.Essential Destinations
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Bosaso
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Bosaso, historically known as Bender Qassim, is a city in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is the administrative capital of the Bosaso District and the principal commercial center of the Puntland regional state.
Garowe
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Garowe is the capital city of Puntland located in northeastern Somalia. It serves as the administrative center of the Nugal region and is known for its strategic importance.
Qardho
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Qardho, also known as Gardo, is a city in the northeastern Bari region of Somalia, a district within the autonomous state of Puntland.
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Iskushuban
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Iskushuban is a small town in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia on the Horn of Africa. A historical settlement, it is situated in the autonomous Puntland state. It lies along the 50th meridian east.
Puntland
- Type: Region with 4,900,000 residents
- Description: semi-autonomous state that considers itself to be part of Somalia
- Also known as: “Buntilaan”, “Buntilaandi”, “Buuntilaan”, “Buuntilaandi”, “Galdogob”, and “Land of Punt”
- Neighbors: Ethiopia, Galmudug, Khatumo, and Somaliland
- Categories: autonomous administrative territorial entity and autonomous state administration body
- Location: Somalia, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Puntland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Puntland”
- Arabic: “أرض البنط”
- Arabic: “إقليم بنت لاند”
- Arabic: “بلاد بنط”
- Arabic: “بنتلاند”
- Arabic: “بنط لاند”
- Arabic: “بونت لاند”
- Armenian: “Պունտլենդ”
- Bashkir: “Пунтленд”
- Basque: “Puntland”
- Basque: “Puntlandia”
- Belarusian: “Пунтленд”
- Bulgarian: “Пунтленд”
- Catalan: “Puntland”
- Catalan: “Puntlàndia”
- Catalan: “República de Majeerteen”
- Chechen: “Пунтленд”
- Chinese: “龐特蘭”
- Chinese: “邦特兰”
- Chinese: “邦特兰国”
- Chinese: “邦特蘭”
- Chinese: “邦特蘭共和國”
- Czech: “Puntland”
- Danish: “Puntland”
- Dutch: “Puntland”
- Esperanto: “Puntlaand”
- Esperanto: “Puntland”
- Esperanto: “Puntlando”
- Estonian: “Puntland”
- Estonian: “Puntlandi Vabariik”
- Finnish: “Puntland”
- Finnish: “Puntmaa”
- French: “Pount”
- French: “Puntland”
- Gagauz: “Puntlend”
- Galician: “Puntlandia”
- German: “Puntlaand”
- German: “Puntland”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία Πούντλαντ της Σομαλίας”
- Greek: “Πουντλάνδη”
- Greek: “Πούντλαντ”
- Hebrew: “פונטלנד”
- Hungarian: “Puntföld”
- Icelandic: “Púntland”
- Ido: “Puntlando”
- Igbo: “Puntland”
- Indonesian: “Puntland”
- Italian: “Puntland”
- Japanese: “プントランド”
- Japanese: “プントランド共和国”
- Kirghiz: “Пунтленд”
- Korean: “푼트란드”
- Korean: “푼트랜드”
- Korean: “푼틀란드”
- Latin: “Puntlandia”
- Latvian: “Puntlenda”
- Lithuanian: “Puntlandas”
- Macedonian: “Пунтланд”
- Macedonian: “Пунтленд”
- Malay: “Puntland”
- Minangkabau: “Puntland”
- Northern Sami: “Puntland”
- Northern Sami: “Puntriika”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puntland”
- Norwegian: “Puntland”
- Persian: “پانتلند”
- Polish: “Puntland”
- Portuguese: “Política de Puntland”
- Portuguese: “Puntland”
- Portuguese: “Puntlândia”
- Romanian: “Puntland”
- Russian: “Автономный Район Пунтленд”
- Russian: “Пунтленд”
- Russian: “Сомалийское Государство Пунтленд”
- Serbian: “Puntland”
- Serbian: “Пунтланд”
- Serbian: “Пунтленд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Puntlend”
- Sicilian: “Puntland”
- Slovak: “Puntland”
- Slovenian: “Puntland”
- Somali: “Buntilaan”
- Somali: “Buntlaand”
- Somali: “Dhul-udug”
- Somali: “Puntland”
- South Azerbaijani: “پونتلاند”
- Spanish: “Puntland”
- Spanish: “Puntlandia”
- Swahili: “Puntland”
- Swedish: “Puntland”
- Tamil: “புந்துலாந்து”
- Tamil: “புன்ட்லாந்து”
- Tatar: “Пунтленд”
- Thai: “พุนต์แลนด์”
- Turkish: “Puntland”
- Ukrainian: “Пунтленд”
- Urdu: “بنط لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Puntlend”
- Uzbek: “Пунтленд”
- Vietnamese: “Puntland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puntland”
- Wu Chinese: “邦特兰”
- Yoruba: “Puntland”
- Yoruba: “Puntlàndì”
- Yue Chinese: “邦特蘭”
- Zulu: “Puntland”
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