Somaliland | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 31/12/2018

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00:02:46 1 History
00:02:56 1.1 Prehistory
00:04:40 1.2 Antiquity and classical era
00:07:50 1.3 Birth of Islam and the Middle Ages
00:08:30 1.4 Early modern sultanates
00:10:15 1.5 British Somaliland
00:12:07 1.6 State of Somaliland
00:13:37 1.7 Somali Republic
00:15:21 1.8 Somali National Movement, Barre persecution
00:18:22 1.9 Somali Civil War
00:20:19 2 Politics and government
00:25:41 2.1 Foreign relations
00:30:17 2.2 Border disputes
00:33:13 2.3 Military
00:34:17 3 Administrative divisions
00:34:27 3.1 Regions
00:34:56 4 Geography
00:37:51 4.1 Climate
00:41:11 5 Economy
00:44:52 5.1 Tourism
00:46:39 5.2 Transport
00:47:43 5.3 Ports
00:48:08 5.4 Oil explorations
00:48:53 6 Demographics
00:49:03 6.1 Languages
00:51:28 6.2 Religion
00:54:02 6.3 Largest cities
00:54:11 7 Culture
00:54:20 7.1 Clan system
00:55:59 7.2 Clan settlements
00:58:08 7.3 Cuisine
00:59:22 7.4 Arts
01:02:01 8 See also



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Somaliland (Somali: Somaliland; Arabic: صوماليلاند‎ Ṣūmālīlānd, أرض الصومال‎ Arḍ aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Republic of Somaliland (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland, Arabic: جمهورية صوماليلاند‎ Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd), is a self-declared state, internationally considered to be an autonomous region of Somalia.The government of the de facto state of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to the former British Somaliland protectorate, which, in the form of the briefly independent State of Somaliland, united as scheduled on 1 July 1960 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.Somaliland lies in northwestern Somalia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. It is bordered by the remainder of Somalia (per international recognition) to the east, Djibouti to the northwest, and Ethiopia to the south and west. Its claimed territory has an area of 176,120 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi), with approximately 4 million residents. The capital and the largest city is Hargeisa, with the population of around 1,500,000 residents.In 1988, the Siad Barre government began a crackdown against the Hargeisa-based Somali National Movement (SNM) and other militant groups, which were among the events that led to the Somali Civil War. The conflict left the country's economic and military infrastructure severely damaged. Following the collapse of Barre's government in early 1991, local authorities, led by the SNM, unilaterally declared independence from Somalia on 18 May of the same year and reinstated the borders of the former short-lived independent State of Somaliland.Since then, the territory has been governed by democratically elected governments that seek international recognition as the Government of the Republic of Somaliland (Somali: Dowlada Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland, Arabic: جمهورية صوماليلاند‎ Dawlat Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd). The central government maintains informal ties with some foreign governments, who have sent delegations to Hargeisa. Ethiopia also maintains a trade office in the region. However, Somaliland's self-proclaimed independence remains unrecognised by any country or international organisation. It is a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, an advocacy group whose members consist of indigenous peoples, minorities and unrecognised or occupied territories.