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Somaliland

Today it means: An ethnically Somali geographic region of East Africa comprising Somalia, Djibouti, and parts of Ethiopia. Full definition →

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From Somali + -land; analogous with Jubaland and Puntland.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.