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The administrative division of Somaliland are organized into three hierarchical levels. consists of 6 regions and 22 districts. Districts in turn contain villages. Districts in turn contain villages. In addition, the capital Hargeisa has its own law (capital law) that is different from the law that defines administrative divisions.
The regions of Somaliland (Somali: Gobolada Somaliland; Arabic: محافظات صوماليلاند) is divided into six administrative regions, Awdal, Sahil, Maroodi-Jeeh, Togdheer, Sanaag and Sool. These are in turn subdivided into twenty-two districts. Regions of Somaliland are the primary geographical divisions through which Somaliland is ...
The Districts of Somaliland (also known as local government districts) are second-level administrative subdivisions of Somaliland, below the level of region. [1] [2] There are a total of 22 district, each district is rated A, B, C, or D according to population, budget, and economic scale with the highest being A grade.
Upon independence in 1960, the Somali Republic maintained the 12 districts of the former Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland that merged to form the new country. [3] In 1964, a new Northeastern (Burao) Province was established by merging Burao, Erigavo, and Las Anod and a Northwestern (Hargeisa) Province was formed from Berbera, Borama ...
They are Somaliland, Puntland, Galmudug, Hirshaabelle, South West, and Jubaland. [1] There is an interim administration Khatumo, and a regional administration Banaadir. Somalia is further subdivided into 18 administrative regions (gobollo, singular gobol), [2] which are in turn subdivided into districts.
The Government of Somaliland consists of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, each of which functions independently from the others. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Somaliland, adopted in 2001. It is a unitary state. [1] [2] The seat of the government is located in Hargeisa, the capital of ...
Administrative divisions of British Somaliland as described in a book published in the UK in 1951. In British Somaliland, today's Awdal was called Zeila-Borama district based on the region's main city. [25] In around 1964, the Berbera, Borama, and Hargeisa districts were combined to form the North-Western (Hargeisa) Province. [25]
At the Grand conference in Burao held in 1991 many names for the country were suggested, including Puntland, in reference to Somaliland's location in the ancient Land of Punt and which is now the name of the Puntland state in neighbouring Somalia, and Shankaroon, meaning "better than five" in Somali, in reference to the five regions of Greater ...