Baki, Awdal

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Baki
Town
Baki_Awdal

Baki_awdal1 Baki_District2

Baki_awdal_district
Baki is located in Awdal
Baki
Baki
Location in Somaliland.
Baki is located in Somaliland
Baki
Baki
Baki (Somaliland)
Coordinates: 10°00′25″N 43°21′47″E / 10.006939°N 43.363006°E / 10.006939; 43.363006
Country Somaliland
RegionAwdal
DistrictBaki District
Area
 • Total3,420 km2 (1,320 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total148,702
 • Density43.48/km2 (112.6/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
ClimateBSh

Baki is a town in the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland. It is the capital of the Baki district.

Demographics[edit]

Baki is inhabited by the Reer Nuur branch of the Makahiil and Reer Mohamed branch of the Mahad 'Ase subclans of the Gadabuursi Dir clan.[1][2][3]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Ciabarri, Luca. Dopo lo Stato. Storia e antropologia della ricomposizione sociale nella Somalia settentrionale: Storia e antropologia della ricomposizione sociale nella Somalia settentrionale (in Italian). FrancoAngeli. p. 258. Baki region, the traditional region of the Gadabursi
  2. ^ Ambroso, Guido (August 2002). Pastoral society and transnational refugees: population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. UNHCR Brussels. Chart showing the Gadabursi exclusively inhabiting the Baki district
  3. ^ Keating, Michael; Waldmann, Matt (2018). War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190058012.