Have you ever heard a Country called Somaliland Not Somalia?

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Somaliland officially known as the Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognized sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, internationally considered[ to be part of Somalia. Somaliland lies in the Horn of Africa, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south and west, and Somalia to the east. Its claimed territory has an area of 176,120 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi),[14] with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. [ The capital and largest city is Hargeisa.
The government of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which, as the briefly independent State of Somaliland, united in 1960 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.

The civil war that began in Somalia in the 1980s and the subsequent overthrow of that country’s Regim in 1991, a government opposition group Called the Somali National Movement (SNM), secured the region comprising the former British Somaliland.

In May 18, 1991 they announced that the 1960 federation was no longer valid and declared their Country the Republic of Somaliland. Somaliland experienced relative stability—a sharp contrast to the civil war that continued to engulf Somalia. Taking advantage of that stability, the Somaliland government was able to rebuild much of the region’s infrastructure, which had been damaged by years of warfare.


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