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Somaliland
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SELF-DECLARED RESTORATION OF INDEPENDENCE (NOT INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED) · 18 MAY 1991
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2007 – 2026 · Non-Recognition, Disputed Borders and a Changing Horn
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26 December 2025 · Israel recognises Somaliland 3 REFS
as of mid-2026 · Status still disputed and unresolved 3 REFS
1991 – 2017 · Restoration and the Building of a State
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18 May 1991 · Declaration restoring Somaliland's independence 2 REFS
1993 · Borama conference and the Guurti 2 REFS
1969 – 1990 · Grievance, the SNM and the Killings of the Late 1980s
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1969 · Siad Barre seizes power in Somalia 2 REFS
1981 · Founding of the Somali National Movement 2 REFS
1960 · Five Days of Statehood and the Union of 1960
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26 June 1960 · Independence of the State of Somaliland 2 REFS
1 July 1960 · Union with the south forms the Somali Republic 2 REFS
1880s – 1960 · The British Somaliland Protectorate
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1880s · Britain establishes the Somaliland Protectorate 2 REFS
c. 1899–1920 · The Dervish resistance of Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan 2 REFS
Antiquity – 16th century · An Ancient Coast: Zeila, Islam and Adal
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early medieval period · Islam takes root on the Gulf of Aden coast 3 REFS
c. 9th–13th century · Zeila flourishes as a trading emporium 2 REFS
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- Population
- 3.5 m
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- Region
- Eastern Africa
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No independent statistical series meets the sourcing bar yet
Somaliland declared independence in 1991 and has not been recognised by the United Nations or any member state. Where its figures are collected at all, they are reported within Somalia's.
Every figure in a Terralore dossier carries the publisher that produced it and the year it refers to. Where no such figure exists the gap is recorded rather than estimated — an imputed number is indistinguishable from a sourced one once it is rendered in the same row, and that would make the whole dossier un-citable. What is above — capital, population, area, languages, currency — comes from the atlas' own reference dataset. It is a smaller claim, honestly made.