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| National motto: None | ||
| Official language | Somali | |
| Capital | Garowe | |
| President | Mohamed Abdi Hashi | |
| Vice-President | Dr. Mohamed Ali Yusuf | |
| Area - Total | < 200,000 - 300,000 km˛, in dispute | |
| Population - Total ( 2000) - Density | 2,500,000 ~5/km˛, uncertain | |
| Independence - Declared - Recognition | 1998 none | |
| Currency | Somali Shilling | |
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTC+3 | |
| National anthemA national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a country's government as their state's official national song. During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the rise of the national state, most count | Somali National Anthem | |
| Internet TLDA top-level domain TLD is the last part of which Internet domain names consist of. For example, in the domain name wikipedia. org the top-level domain is org (or ORG, as domain names are not case-sensitive). The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) | .SO | |
| Calling CodeThis is a list of country calling codes also known as international direct dialing (IDD) codes, which are needed to access international telephone services. The numbers are assigned by the International Telecommunication Union in standard E. The numbers a | 252 (Somalia) | |
Puntland is a region in northeastern SomaliaSomalia ( Somali: Soomaaliya Arabic: As-Sumal , formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic is an African country that exists solely in a de jure capacity. Somalia has no recognized central government authority, national currency, or any other featur, centered around Garowe ( NugaalNugaal is a region gobolka in northern Somalia. Its capital is Garoowe. It is bordered by Ethiopia, the Somalian regions of Sool, Bari and Mudug and the Indian Ocean. region), whose leaders in 1998 declared it to be an autonomous state. The current government apparently sees the move as an attempt to reconstitute Somalia as a federative republic.
Puntland considered itself as an autonomous state within Somalia. In 1969, when Somalia's government was toppled in a coup d'état, years of war and chaos followed. An unsuccessful invasion of Ethiopia followed the Soviet Union's change of support from Somalia to Ethiopia, caused by the communist takeover in Ethiopia. Left without Soviet support, Somalia turned to the United States, which allowed Somalia's self-proclaimed president, Siad Barre, to stay in power through the end of the Cold War in 1991. When the Soviet Union collapsed, American support for the Somali government was withdrawn, and Barre was overthrown.
Following these events, Somalis remained without a strong government, with constant wars ravaging the southern part of Somalia. These events led to the 1991 secession of Somaliland, which in 1960 had enjoyed a few days of independence. Anarchy continued throughout the land, prompting a United Nations peacekeeping force to be sent to war-torn Somalia. The relief effort ended however in March 3, 1995, after American troops were shot down and massacred.
Somalia remained unstable and, in 1998, Puntland declared autonomy under the presidency of Abdullahi Yusuf (deputy president of Somali Salvation Democratic Front), as a nation with clan confederation as one of its top priorities. Since 1998, Puntland has been in territorial disputes with Somaliland over the Sool and Sanaag regions.
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