Berbera District Explained

Official Name:Berbera District
Native Name:Degmada Barbara
Settlement Type:District
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Sahil
Subdivision Type2:Capital
Subdivision Name2:Berbera
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2005
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:60753
Timezone:EAT
Utc Offset:+3

Berbera District (Somali: Degmada Barbara) is a district of the Sahil province in Somaliland. Its capital lies at Berbera.

The city is primarily inhabited by people from the Somali ethnic group, in particular by the Isamusa[2] clan which is sub-clan of the Isaaq family clan.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regions, districts, and their populations: Somalia 2005 (draft) . . . 31 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170728203029/https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Somalia/UNDP-POP-RURAL-URBAN%202005.pdf . 28 July 2017 . dead.
  2. Book: Petermanns Mitteilungen. Ergänzungsheft . 1894 . J. Perthes . 228 . de.
  3. Book: Lewis . I. M. . Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society . The Red Sea Press . 1994 . 9780932415936 . 102 . isaaq noble. . registration.