Baki District

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Baki District
Degmada Baki
Baki district within Awdal, Somaliland
Baki district within Awdal, Somaliland
Country Somaliland
RegionAwdal
CapitalBaki
Population
 (2005)[1]
 • Total25,500
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Baki District (Somali: Degmada Baki) is a district in the Awdal region of western Somaliland.[2]

Demographics[]

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.[3][4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Regions, districts, and their populations: Somalia 2005 (draft)" (PDF). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  2. ^ Districts of Somalia, Statoids
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Keating, Michael; Waldmann, Matt (2018). War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190058012.

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