Area in East Africa where ethnic Somalis mostly live
Greater Somalia sometimes called Greater Somaliland (Somali: Soomaaliweyn, Arabic: الصومال الكبرىAs-Sūmal al-Kubra) is the geographical location comprising the regions in the Horn of Africa in which ethnic Somalis live and have historically inhabited.[1][2]
Historically ethnic Somali inhabited territory roughly corresponding to Greater SomaliaCIA map of the greater Somali territory across the Horn
The territory historically encompassed British Jubaland Province (now Jubaland),[3] British Somaliland, Italian Somaliland, parts of French Somaliland (now Djibouti), the Somali Region in Ethiopia, the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, and the intra-46th meridian east territories. At the present, it encompasses Somalia proper (including Somaliland), Jubaland, southern and eastern Djibouti, the Somali Region, Harar, and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia, and the Garissa, Wajir and Mandera Counties in Kenya (all of which were part of the former North Eastern Province which was abolished in 2013). A few sources even included the islands of Socotra, Abd al Kuri, Samhah, Darsah, Sabuniyah and the Ka'l Fir'awn islands in Yemen's Socotra Archipelago. Critics have often deemed “Greater Somalia” an irredentist concept.[4][5]
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^Duale (Bobe), Abdirahman Yusuf (2014), "Less and more than the sum of its parts: The failed merger of Somaliland and Somalia and the tragic quest for 'Greater Somalia'", Self-Determination and Secession in Africa, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-315-76290-6
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