Somaliland

Somaliland is a self-declared republic on the recognised internationally to be part of . Local authorities declared the region's independence from in May 1991, but neither the Somali federal government nor any other country…
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Somaliland

  • Type: Country with 6,500,000 residents
  • Description: de facto state in the Horn of Africa
  • Also known as: “gobolka Somaliland”, “Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland جمهورية أرض الصومال”, “Nordsomalia”, “Republic of Somaliland”, “Republica de Somalilandia”, “República de Somalilandia”, “República de Somalilàndia”, “Republica Somaliland”, “Republik Somaliland”, “Republika Somaliland”, “Republiken Somaliland”, “république du Somaliland”, “Respubliko de Somalilando”, “Salal”, “Somalia saoz”, “Somaliaeana”, “Somaliaeanan”, “Somáliaeanan”, “Somaliaeatnama dásseváldi”, “Somáliaeatnama dásseváldi”, “Somaliaeennâm täsiväldi”, “Somaliajânnam tääʹssväʹldd”, “Somalieland”, “Somálijsko”, “Somaliland Cumhuriyeti”, “Somalilendan Tazovaldkund”, “Somalilendas”, “Somālilendas Republika”, “Somalinma”, “Somalinman Tazovaldkund”, “Somalio”, “Soomaaliland أرض الصومال”, “Soomalilaand”, “Soomaliland”, “Yn Çheer Homaalagh”, “Република Сомалиленд”, “Республика Сомалиленд”, “Рэспубліка Самаліленд”, “جمهور ية أرض الصومال”, “جمهورية أرض الصومال”, “جمهورية ارض الصومال”, “جمهورية صومالي لاند”, “جمهورية صوماليلاند”, “سومالی لند”, “سومالیلند”, “صومالي لاند”, “ሱማሊ ላንድ”, “ሶማሊ ላንድ”, “സൊമാലിലാന്റ്”, “සොමායිලන්ඩ්”, “โซมาลิแลนด์”, “ประเทศโซมาลิแลนด์”, “สาธารณรัฐโซมาลีแลนด์”, “소말리란드”, “소말리랜드”, “소말리랜드 공화국”, “소말릴랜드”, “ソマリランド共和国”, “索馬利蘭人口”, “索馬利蘭共和國”, “索馬里蘭共和國”, and “索马里兰共和国”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: state with limited recognition, republic, de facto regime, and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
9.7277° or 9° 43′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
46.0099° or 46° 0′ 36″ east
Population
6,500,000
Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9586518888
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
328195
Wiki­data ID
Q34754
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Somaliland” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Afrikaans: “Somaliland”
  • Albanian: “Somalilandi”
  • Amharic: “ሶማሊላንድ”
  • Angika: “सोमालीदेश”
  • Arabic: “أرض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “صوماليلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Somalilandia”
  • Armenian: “Սոմալիլենդ”
  • Arpitan: “Somalilande”
  • Asturian: “Somalilandia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somalilend”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somalilənd”
  • Bashkir: “Сомалиленд”
  • Basque: “Somalilandia”
  • Belarusian: “Самаліленд”
  • Belarusian: “Самалілэнд”
  • Bengali: “সোমালিল্যান্ড”
  • Betawi: “Somalilan”
  • Bosnian: “Somaliland”
  • Breton: “Somaliland”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုမာလီလန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Somalilàndia”
  • Cebuano: “Somaliland”
  • Central Kurdish: “سۆماڵیلاند”
  • Chechen: “Сомалиленд”
  • Chinese: “索馬利蘭”
  • Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Chinese: “索马里兰 / 索馬利蘭”
  • Chinese: “索马里兰”
  • Chuvash: “Сомалиленд”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Somaliland”
  • Croatian: “Somaliland”
  • Czech: “Somaliland”
  • Danish: “Somaliland”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޮމާލީލޭންޑު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Somaliland”
  • Dutch: “Somaliland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارض الصومال”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صوماليلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Somalilando”
  • Estonian: “Somaalimaa”
  • Farefare: “Somaliland”
  • Finnish: “Somalimaa”
  • French: “Somaliland”
  • Gagauz: “Somaliland”
  • Gagauz: “Somalilend”
  • Galician: “Somalilandia”
  • Georgian: “სომალილენდი”
  • German: “Somaliland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Somaliland”
  • Greek: “Σομαλιλάνδη”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Somaliland”
  • Gujarati: “સોમાલિલેન્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Somaliland”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Somaliland”
  • Hausa: “Somaliland”
  • Hebrew: “סומלילנד”
  • Hindi: “सोमालीलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Szomáliföld”
  • Iban: “Somaliland”
  • Icelandic: “Sómalíland”
  • Ido: “Somalilando”
  • Igbo: “Somaliland”
  • Inari Sami: “Somaliaeennâm”
  • Indonesian: “Somaliland”
  • Interlingue: “Somaliland”
  • Irish: “Críoch Shomáile”
  • Italian: “Somaliland”
  • Japanese: “ソマリランド”
  • Javanese: “Somaliland”
  • Kalmyk: “Сомалилендин Таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಮಾಲಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kashmiri: “صومالی لینٛڈ”
  • Kazakh: “Сомалиленд”
  • Kikuyu: “Somaliland”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомалиленд”
  • Kongo: “Somaliland”
  • Korean: “소말릴란드”
  • Kurdish: “Somalîland”
  • Kurdish: “Somalîlenda”
  • Ladino: “Somalilandia”
  • Lao: “ໂຊມາລີແລນ”
  • Latin: “Somalilandia”
  • Latvian: “Somālilenda”
  • Ligurian: “Somaliland”
  • Limburgan: “Somaliland”
  • Lingala: “Somaliland”
  • Literary Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Somalilandas”
  • Lombard: “Somaliland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Somaliland”
  • Macedonian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Malagasy: “Sômalilandy”
  • Malay: “Somaliland”
  • Malayalam: “സോമാലിലാന്റ്”
  • Manx: “Yn Tomaalee”
  • Marathi: “सोमालीलँड”
  • Mazanderani: “سومالی‌لند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Somaliland”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somaliland”
  • Minangkabau: “Somaliland”
  • Mingrelian: “სომალილენდი”
  • Mongolian: “Сомалиланд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صوماليلاند”
  • Northern Frisian: “Somaalilun”
  • Northern Luri: “سوٙمالی لأند”
  • Northern Sami: “Somáliaeana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somaliland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somaliland”
  • Norwegian: “Somaliland”
  • Novial: “Somalilande”
  • Nyanja: “Somaliland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Somaliland”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܨܘܡܐܠܝܠܢܕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Somalaland”
  • Ossetian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Pali: “सोमालिलैंड”
  • Pampanga: “Somaliland”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਮਾਲੀਲੈਂਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Somalilandia”
  • Persian: “سومالی‌لند”
  • Piemontese: “Somaliland”
  • Polish: “Somaliland”
  • Portuguese: “Somalilândia”
  • Pushto: “سومالیلانډ”
  • Romanian: “Somaliland”
  • Russian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Sanskrit: “सोमालिलैंड”
  • Sardinian: “Somaliland”
  • Scots: “Somaliland”
  • Serbian: “Somaliland”
  • Serbian: “Somalilend”
  • Serbian: “Сомалиланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somaliland”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသူဝ်ႇမႃးလီးလႅၼ်း”
  • Shona: “SOMALILAND”
  • Sicilian: “Somaliland”
  • Silesian: “Sůmaliland”
  • Sindhi: “صومالي لينڊ (ملڪ)”
  • Sindhi: “صومالي لينڊ”
  • Sinhala: “සෝමාලිලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “සෝමාලිලෑන්ඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Somaliajânnam”
  • Slovak: “Somaliland”
  • Slovak: “Soomaaliland”
  • Slovenian: “Somaliland”
  • Somali: “Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland”
  • Somali: “Somaliland”
  • Somali: “Soomaaliland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سومالی‌لند”
  • Spanish: “Somalilandia”
  • Sundanese: “Somaliland”
  • Swahili: “Somaliland”
  • Swedish: “Somaliland”
  • Tagalog: “Somaliland”
  • Tagalog: “Somalilandiya”
  • Tajik: “Сумалиланд”
  • Tamil: “சோமாலிலாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Сомалиленд”
  • Telugu: “సొమాలీలాండ్”
  • Telugu: “సోమాలిలాండ్”
  • Thai: “โซมาลีแลนด์”
  • Turkish: “Somaliland”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомаліленд”
  • Urdu: “صومالی لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Somalilend”
  • Venetian: “Somałiłàndia”
  • Veps: “Somalilend”
  • Vietnamese: “Somaliland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somaliland”
  • Welsh: “Somaliland”
  • Western Panjabi: “صومالی لینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “索马里兰”
  • Yiddish: “סאמאלילאנד”
  • Yoruba: “Sòmálílàndì”
  • Yue Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Zulu: “ISomaliland”
  • “ma Somalilan”
  • “ma Somalima”

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