Banadir
Banaadir Benadir | |
|---|---|
 Mogadishu street scene | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location in Somalia | |
| Coordinates: 2°2′59″N 45°15′44″E / 2.04972°N 45.26222°E | |
| Country | Somalia |
| Capital | Mogadishu |
| Government | |
| • Type | Federal |
| • Governor | Yusuf Hussein Jimaale |
| Area | |
| • Total | 370 km2 (140 sq mi) |
| Population (2019[1]) | |
| • Total | 2,330,700 |
| • Density | 6,300/km2 (16,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| HDI (2017) | 0.459[2] medium · 1st |
Banaadir (Somali: Banaadir, Arabic: بنادر, Italian: Benadir) is an administrative region (gobol) in southeastern Somalia.[3] It covers the same area as the city of Mogadishu, which serves as the capital. It is the only region in the country not belonging to any of the six states. It is bordered to the northwest by the Shabelle river, and to the southeast by the Indian Ocean.[4] Although by far the smallest administrative region in Somalia, it has the largest population, estimated at 1,650,227 (including 369,288 internally displaced persons) in 2014.[5]
The territorial extent and scope of the term Benaadir has varied in definition throughout its history, with medieval usage extending Benaadir to huge swaths of coast adjacent to Mogadishu stretching as far as hundreds of miles, from Hobyo in the north. The early modern period which extended the meaning of Benaadir to the interior midway towards the Hirshabelle region, to the contemporary period wherein sometimes the nonstandard misnomer of usage being interchangeable with the city of Mogadishu. This Banaadir municipality is bordered to the north by Hirshabelle and to the southwest by South West, and is the only Somali gobol (administrative region) which is both a municipality and a gobol known as a region.
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- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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- ^ Eno, Omar A., Mohamed A. Eno, and Dan Van Lehman. "Defining the problem in Somalia: perspectives from the southern minorities." Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society 47 (2010): 19-30.
- ^ "Population Estimation Survey 2014 for the 18 Pre-War Regions of Somalia" (PDF). United Nations Population Fund. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.