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Region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

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Togdheer Togdheer ( so, Togdheer, ar, تُوْجْدَيْر, Tūjdayr) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in central Somaliland. Togdheer is bordered by Maroodi Jeex to the west, Saaxil to the north, Sanaag to the northeast, Sool to the east a ...

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District A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

, subdivision_name2 = Oodweyne District , government_footnotes = , government_type = , leader_title = , leader_name = , established_title = , established_date = , area_magnitude = , unit_pref = Metric , area_footnotes = , area_total_km2 = , area_land_km2 = , population_as_of = 2005 , population_footnotes = , population_note = , population_total = 42,031 , population_density_km2 = , timezone =

EAT Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbi ...

, utc_offset = +3 , timezone_DST = , utc_offset_DST = , coordinates = , elevation_footnotes = , elevation_m = , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , area_code = , blank_name = , blank_info = , website = , image_blank_emblem = Odweyne Local Government Logo.jpg , blank_emblem_type = Local council seal of Odweyne Odweyne ( so, Oodweyne, meaning "Big bush") is a town in the northwestern

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Somaliland Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...

. It is located between Burco and Hargeisa in the western part of

region.

Notable residents

* Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman, Sultan of the Habr Yunis and one of the founders of the Somali Dervish movement. * Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, two-time prime minister of Somalia and second president of Somaliland.

References

Populated places in Togdheer {{Somaliland-geo-stub