Geesaley ( so, Gesalay, ar, جآسالآي), also known as Gesulli, is a coastal town in the northeastern

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

province of

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

. It is situated in the autonomous Puntland region. Home to the largest date farm in the Horn of Africa.

Location

Geesaley is located at , facing the

Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden ( ar, خليج عدن, so, Gacanka Cadmeed 𐒅𐒖𐒐𐒕𐒌 𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒗𐒒) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channe ...

. It lies 4 nautical miles (4.6 miles) northeast of

Murcanyo Murcanyo ( so, Muranyo, ar, مورايو), also known as Bander Murcaayo (alternatively ''Bandar Murcaayo'' or ''Bunder Marayah''), is a coastal town in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is situated in the autonomous Puntland region. ...

and 2.6 nautical miles (3 miles) southwest of

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Geography

The town is situated on a low plain surrounded by the Jebel Murcanyo mountain range and an elongated bay that lies in the

. ' meaning mountain in

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), the mountain range stretches across the

region to the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

coastline at Bargal. It consists of cream-coloured

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

, as well as

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...

and

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

.S. B. Miles, ''On the Neighbourhood of Bunder Marayah'', Vol. 42, (Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the institute of British Geographers): 1872), p.61-63.

Administration

On April 8, 2013, the Puntland government announced the creation of a new region coextensive with Geesaley and Cape Guardafui, named ''Gardafuul''. Carved out of the

region, it consists of three districts and has its capital at Alula.

Education

According to the Puntland Ministry of Education, there is 1 primary school in Geesaley.

References

{{Provinces of Puntland , state=expanded Bari, Somalia Headlands of Somalia

Location

Geography

Administration

Education

See also

References