Official Name: | God Caanood |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Somaliland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Somaliland. |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Sanaag |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Erigavo |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2002[1] |
Population Total: | 1000 |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 10.1117°N 47.3064°W |
Footnotes: | Sada Mire, Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire, March 2015African Archaeological Review 32(1):111-136 |
God Caanood (Somali: Godcanood) is a town in the Sanaag region of Somaliland. God Caanood (pronounced as God Anood in English) has a ruined old town, according to a scholarly article published by Sada Mire in 2015.[2]
This town is holy and inhabited by the Muuse Ismaaciil sub-clan of Habar Yoonis and the Muse Abokor Bicide sub-clan of Habar Jeclo.