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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 or international organisation has recognised its sovereignty, instead claiming it as an autonomous region of Somalia.
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is the capital of Somaliland. It is one of the safest places in what the rest of the world still considers to be Somalia.

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, sometimes known as Maroodi Jeex, is one of the administrative regions of Somaliland. Containing Somaliland's capital and two largest cities, it forms the most populous and important region in the country.

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Most travellers who come to are simply passing through on their way to . Although often ignored by the few tourists who make it to the country, this administrative region of the self-declared republic of Somaliland is a destination in its own right.

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Named after the eponymous river which runs through the area, is one of the administrative regions of the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

Somaliland

Latitude of center
9.7277° or 9° 43′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
46.0099° or 46° 0′ 36″ east
Population
4,170,000
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: “Somalieland”
  • Afrikaans: “Somaliland”
  • Albanian: “Somalilandi”
  • Amharic: “ሱማሊ ላንድ”
  • Amharic: “ሶማሊ ላንድ”
  • Amharic: “ሶማሊላንድ”
  • Angika: “सोमालीदेश”
  • Arabic: “أرض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “ارض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “جمهور ية أرض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية أرض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية ارض الصومال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية صومالي لاند”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية صوماليلاند”
  • Arabic: “صومالي لاند”
  • Arabic: “صوماليلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Somalilandia”
  • Armenian: “Սոմալիլենդ”
  • Arpitan: “Somalilande”
  • Asturian: “Somalilandia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somalilend”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somalilənd”
  • Bashkir: “Сомалиленд”
  • Basque: “Somaliland”
  • Basque: “Somalilandia”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Самаліленд”
  • Belarusian: “Самаліленд”
  • Belarusian: “Самалілэнд”
  • Bengali: “সোমালিল্যান্ড”
  • Betawi: “Somalilan”
  • Bosnian: “Somaliland”
  • Breton: “Somalia saoz”
  • Breton: “Somaliland”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Сомалиленд”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုမာလီလန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República de Somalilàndia”
  • Catalan: “Somaliland”
  • Catalan: “Somalilàndia”
  • Central Kurdish: “سۆماڵیلاند”
  • Chechen: “Сомалиленд”
  • Chinese: “Somaliland”
  • Chinese: “索馬利蘭”
  • Chinese: “索馬利蘭人口”
  • Chinese: “索馬利蘭共和國”
  • Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Chinese: “索馬里蘭共和國”
  • Chinese: “索马里兰 / 索馬利蘭”
  • Chinese: “索马里兰”
  • Chinese: “索马里兰共和国”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Somaliland”
  • Croatian: “Somaliland”
  • Czech: “Somálijsko”
  • Czech: “Somaliland”
  • Czech: “Soomaaliland”
  • Danish: “Somaliland”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޮމާލީލޭންޑު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Somaliland”
  • Dutch: “Somaliland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارض الصومال”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صوماليلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko de Somalilando”
  • Esperanto: “Somalilando”
  • Esperanto: “Somalio”
  • Estonian: “Somaalimaa”
  • Estonian: “Somalimaa”
  • Farefare: “Somaliland”
  • Finnish: “Somalimaa”
  • French: “république du Somaliland”
  • French: “Somaliland”
  • Gagauz: “Somaliland”
  • Gagauz: “Somalilend”
  • Galician: “Somalilandia”
  • Georgian: “სომალილენდი”
  • German: “Nordsomalia”
  • German: “Somaliland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of 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”
  • Icelandic: “Sómalíland”
  • Igbo: “Somaliland”
  • Inari Sami: “Somaliaeennâm täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Somaliaeennâm”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Somaliland”
  • Indonesian: “Somaliland”
  • Interlingue: “Somaliland”
  • Irish: “Críoch Shomáile”
  • Italian: “Somaliland”
  • Japanese: “ソマリランド”
  • Japanese: “ソマリランド共和国”
  • Javanese: “Somaliland”
  • Kalmyk: “Сомалилендин Таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಮಾಲಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kashmiri: “صومالی لینٛڈ”
  • Kazakh: “Сомалиленд”
  • Kikuyu: “Somaliland”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомалиленд”
  • Kongo: “Somaliland”
  • Korean: “소말리란드”
  • Korean: “소말리랜드 공화국”
  • Korean: “소말리랜드”
  • Korean: “소말릴란드”
  • Korean: “소말릴랜드”
  • Kurdish: “Somalîland”
  • Kurdish: “Somalîlenda”
  • Lao: “ໂຊມາລີແລນ”
  • Latin: “Somalilandia”
  • Latvian: “Somālilenda”
  • Latvian: “Somālilendas Republika”
  • Limburgan: “Somaliland”
  • Lingala: “Somaliland”
  • Literary Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Somalilandas”
  • Lithuanian: “Somalilendas”
  • Lombard: “Somaliland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Somaliland”
  • Macedonian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Malagasy: “Sômalilandy”
  • Malay: “Somaliland”
  • Malayalam: “Republic of Somaliland”
  • Malayalam: “Somaliland”
  • Malayalam: “സൊമാലിലാന്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “സോമാലിലാന്റ്”
  • Manx: “Yn Çheer Homaalagh”
  • 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: “Somaliaeana”
  • Northern Sami: “Somáliaeana”
  • Northern Sami: “Somaliaeanan”
  • Northern Sami: “Somáliaeanan”
  • Northern Sami: “Somaliaeatnama dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Somáliaeatnama dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somaliland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somaliland”
  • Norwegian: “Somaliland”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “سومالی لند”
  • Persian: “سومالی‌لند”
  • Persian: “سومالیلند”
  • Piemontese: “Somaliland”
  • Polish: “Somaliland”
  • Portuguese: “Somaliland”
  • Portuguese: “Somalilândia”
  • Pushto: “سومالیلانډ”
  • Romanian: “Somaliland”
  • Russian: “Республика Сомалиленд”
  • Russian: “Сомалиленд”
  • Sanskrit: “सोमालिलैंड”
  • Sardinian: “Somaliland”
  • Scots: “Somaliland”
  • Serbian: “Somaliland”
  • Serbian: “Somalilend”
  • Serbian: “Сомалиланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somaliland”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသူဝ်ႇမႃးလီးလႅၼ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Somaliland”
  • Silesian: “Sůmaliland”
  • Sindhi: “صومالي لينڊ (ملڪ)”
  • Sindhi: “صومالي لينڊ”
  • Sinhala: “සොමායිලන්ඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “සෝමාලිලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “සෝමාලිලෑන්ඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Somaliajânnam tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Somaliajânnam”
  • Slovak: “Somaliland”
  • Slovak: “Soomaaliland”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Somaliland”
  • Slovenian: “Somaliland”
  • Somali: “gobolka Somaliland”
  • Somali: “Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland”
  • Somali: “Somaliland”
  • Somali: “Soomaaliland”
  • Somali: “Soomalilaand”
  • Somali: “Soomaliland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سومالی‌لند”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Somalilandia”
  • Spanish: “República de Somalilandia”
  • Spanish: “Somaliland”
  • Spanish: “Somalilandia”
  • Sundanese: “Somaliland”
  • Swahili: “Somaliland”
  • Swedish: “Lista över Somalilands presidenter”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Somaliland”
  • Swedish: “Salal”
  • Swedish: “Somaliland”
  • Tagalog: “Republic of Somaliland”
  • Tagalog: “Somaliland”
  • Tagalog: “Somalilandiya”
  • Tajik: “Сумалиланд”
  • Tamil: “சோமாலிலாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Сомалиленд”
  • Telugu: “సొమాలీలాండ్”
  • Telugu: “సోమాలిలాండ్”
  • Thai: “โซมาลิแลนด์”
  • Thai: “โซมาลีแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโซมาลิแลนด์”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐโซมาลีแลนด์”
  • Turkish: “Somaliland Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Somaliland”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомаліленд”
  • Urdu: “Somaliland”
  • Urdu: “صومالی لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Somalilend”
  • Venetian: “Somałiłàndia”
  • Vietnamese: “Somaliland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somaliland”
  • Welsh: “Somaliland”
  • Western Panjabi: “صومالی لینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “索马里兰”
  • Yiddish: “סאמאלילאנד”
  • Yoruba: “Somaliland”
  • Yoruba: “Sòmálílàndì”
  • Yue Chinese: “索馬里蘭”
  • Zulu: “ISomaliland”
  • “ma Somalima”

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