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Woqooyi Galbeed

Basic data
Country	Somalia
Capital	Hargeysa
surface	28,836 km²
Residents	1,242,003 (calculation 2013)
density	43 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	SO-WHERE

9.61767522 44.00642395Coordinates: 9 ° 37 ' N , 44 ° 0' E

Woqooyi Galbeed (Somali for "northwest"; Arabic وقوي غلبيد Wuqūy Ghalbayd ) is a region ( gobolka ) in northern Somalia . It is part of the internationally not recognized Somaliland . Its capital is Hargeysa , which is also the capital of Somaliland.

According to the administrative structure of Somalia , the port city of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden also belongs to Woqooyi Galbeed; In Somaliland, however, the coastal strip of Woqooyi Galbeed forms a separate Saaxil region with Berbera as the capital.

The western neighboring region of Awdal belonged to Woqooyi Galbeed before it was administratively separated from it.

The people of Woqooyi Galbeed include the majority of Somali - Clan of Isaaq on.

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Somali states / regimes

(Predecessor and successor or collapsing states or regimes and their political system)

Colonial times

Majerteen Sultanate (1600–1924) | State of the dervishes (1896–1920, independence movement / militia) | German colonial efforts (1885–1890, protection treaties) | Italian Somaliland (from 1888 protectorate under civil administration by colonial societies, from 1905 colony) | Oltre Giuba (1924–1926), independent colony until it was incorporated into Ital.-Somaliland) | Italian East Africa (1936–1941 contained Somalia as a sub-area, from 1940 including conquered British Somaliland) | British Somaliland ( administered from British India from 1884, under the Foreign Office from 1903, 1905–1940 and from 1941 Colonial Office)

After the Second World War

Somalia Trust Territory (1947–1960) | British Somaliland (1941–1960, colony) | Somaliland State (June 26, 1960 - July 1, 1960, transitional state)

From independence
to civil war

Somalia Republic of Somalia (July 1960 - October 1969, democratic presidential system) Democratic Republic of Somalia (October 1969 - January 1991, socialist one-party state, dictatorship under Siad Barre)
Somalia

Civil war period,
collapse of the central state
(claims to recognition)

as a split-off state	Republic of Somaliland (since 1991, presidential system)
as part of Somalia	Awdalland (1995) and Awdal State of Somalia (2009) \| Azania State of Somalia (2011-2013) \| Galmudug State of Somalia (since 2006) \| Hiiraan State of Somalia (2010-2015) \| Himan and Heeb State of Somalia (2010–2015) \| Jubaland (1998-2001) and Jubaland State of Somalia (since 2013) \| Khatumo State of Somalia (since 2012) \| Maakhir State of Somalia (2007–2009) \| Ras Aseyr State of Somalia (since 2011) \| Saylac & Lughaya State of Somalia (2011) \| Shabelle State of Somalia (since 2014) \| South West Somalia (1995–2004) and South West State (since 2014) \| Puntland (since 1998) Puntland
as successor government over total Somalia	Union of Islamic Courts (2000–2007, Critarchy) \| Alliance for the Liberation of Somalia (2006–2009, Central Committee) \| Islamic Emirate of Somalia (since 2008, al-Shabaab militia) and with international recognition: National Transitional Government (2000–2004) \| Federal Transitional Government (2004–2012) Somalia Somalia

New constitution from 2012

not involved in the state	Somaliland Somaliland (recognized federal state, but does not consider itself to be part of Somalia) Khatumo (not recognized as a federal state)
Central government	Somalia Federal Republic of Somalia (parliamentary democracy)