Cayn

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Cayn
Gobolka Cayn
Region
Cayn is number 2. Area 2, 4, 8, and 9 are disputed with Somaliland.[1]
Cayn is number 2. Area 2, 4, 8, and 9 are disputed with Somaliland.[1]
Country Puntland
(Disputed with  Somaliland)
CapitalBuuhoodle
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Cayn or Ayn is an administrative region in Somalia. Cayn is bordered by Togdheer to the west, Sool to the east, and Ethiopia to the south. Its capital is Buuhoodle.[2][3]

Overview[]

Centered on the town of Buuhoodle, Cayn is disputed by Somaliland and Puntland. According to Somaliland, the Cayn area claimed by Puntland is regarded a separate region dubbed Buuhoodle region.[4]

As with much of northern Somalia, most local residents in the Cayn region are nomadic pastoralists.[5]

Las Anod-Nogal district from 1944 - 1960.

The region was formerly part of Togdheer region.

Cayn was formerly part of the Las Anod-Nogal District from 1944 until 1960 for sixteen years with Las Anod as capital.[6][page needed] John A Hunt stated the following about the Las Anod-Nogal District:

"The Nogal (Las Anod) District defined in 1944. This was supposed to have been done for administrative convenience, but the somewhat crooked boundary between the Burao and Nogal districts suggests that it was intended to make the Las Anod-Nogal District an entirely Dolbahanta Tribal District ... All the Dolbahanta have been Las Anod District since 1944, except for the Naleya Ahmed of the Ogadyahan Siad ... remaining in Erigavo District".[7]

Districts[]

The Cayn region consists of the following districts:[8]

Demographics[]

The Dhulbahante of the Harti Darod clan is well represent in the region.[9][10]

Major towns[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Somaliland elections: Could polls help gain recognition?". BBC. 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  2. ^ Law, Gwillim (2015-09-01). "Regions of Somalia". Statoids.
  3. ^ "Somalia". The World Factbook. Langley, Virginia, the USA: Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  4. ^ "Remarks on the 1998 Charter of Puntland State of Somalia". . 2000-08-12. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
  5. ^ Bradbury, Mark (2008). Becoming Somaliland. Progressio. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-2533-5178-4.
  6. ^ A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa, I M Lewis, 2003
  7. ^ Hunt, John Anthony (1951). A General Survey of the Somaliland Protectorate 1944-1950 (PDF). p. 165 & 53.
  8. ^ "Districts of Somalia". Statoids. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  9. ^ Hoehne, Markus V. (2010). Borders & Borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. p. 113. ISBN 9781847010186. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  10. ^ Gebrewold, Belachew (28 March 2013). Anatomy of Violence: Understanding the systems of conflict and violence in Africa. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. p. 130. ISBN 9781409499213. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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