20 largest cities in Somalia

[NidarNidar]

Mieso and muli are hawiye areas right ?

Issa live in Mieso aswell.

What are these names? They don't look or sound af Somali at all.

Probably bastardised it.

 

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Hawiye and Issa in the Afar region

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Hawiye and Issa in the Afar region

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Let’s hope Somalis consolidate those areas 🫡

 

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Issa vs Hawiye. Survival of the fittest

 

[Libaax-Joore]

Google's open buildings project

War kismayo aniga tageey add be u dhabeesa

 

[Afrax]

Full list of all 38 cities and towns in Somaliweyn with more than 10,000 buildings.

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Garissa and Wajir could provide a lot of preliminary information on Somali towns.

• Population(2019)
• Garissa: 163,914
  • Assumption(2025) 200,000
• Wajir: 130,116
  • 160,000
• %: 80%
• 
  
• Buildings:
• Garissa 77,411
• Wajir: 62,856
• %: 82%

People per building 2.5 (Garissa)

Applied this ratio to Somalia towns:

Mogadishu: 1,223,015
Hargeisa: 413,107
Djibouti: 354,675
Jigjiga: 335,890
Baidoa: 218,200
Garissa: 200,000(assumption)
Wajir: 160,000(assumption)
Burao: 156,235
Kismayo: 141,050
Bosaso: 109,925

Depends a lot on how many multi story buildings were in Garissa. But Somalia is pretty much empty. Max population of 15 million people.

Disclaimer

Would need to know current population data of these two towns or 2019 building numbers and it would be less of a guesswork.

 

[Medeea]

Garissa and Wajir could provide a lot of preliminary information on Somali towns.

• Population(2019)
• Garissa: 163,914
  • Assumption(2025) 200,000
• Wajir: 130,116
  • 160,000
• %: 80%
• 
  
• Buildings:
• Garissa 77,411
• Wajir: 62,856
• %: 82%

People per building 2.5 (Garissa)

Applied this ratio to Somalia towns:

Mogadishu: 1,223,015
Hargeisa: 413,107
Djibouti: 354,675
Jigjiga: 335,890
Baidoa: 218,200
Garissa: 200,000(assumption)
Wajir: 160,000(assumption)
Burao: 156,235
Kismayo: 141,050
Bosaso: 109,925

Depends a lot on how many multi story buildings were in Garissa. But Somalia is pretty much empty. Max population of 15 million people.

Disclaimer

2.5 per household doesn’t make sense. America’s average is 2.51. Somalia’s gotta be at least 5 in the north and 6 in the south. 2.5 means we’re below replacement birth rate + young couples regularly delay pregnancy. It’s impossible.

And Xamar’s growing both horizontally and vertically. So It’s impossible to know for sure, but the upcoming 1p1v local election should give us something to work with.

But I agree that many somalis tend to grossly overestimate their population. But HS, SWS and Xamar are undercounted. Mark my words

 

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Garissa and Wajir could provide a lot of preliminary information on Somali towns.

• Population(2019)
• Garissa: 163,914
  • Assumption(2025) 200,000
• Wajir: 130,116
  • 160,000
• %: 80%
• 
  
• Buildings:
• Garissa 77,411
• Wajir: 62,856
• %: 82%

People per building 2.5 (Garissa)

Applied this ratio to Somalia towns:

Mogadishu: 1,223,015
Hargeisa: 413,107
Djibouti: 354,675
Jigjiga: 335,890
Baidoa: 218,200
Garissa: 200,000(assumption)
Wajir: 160,000(assumption)
Burao: 156,235
Kismayo: 141,050
Bosaso: 109,925

Depends a lot on how many multi story buildings were in Garissa. But Somalia is pretty much empty. Max population of 15 million people.

Disclaimer

Mogadishu’s population is close to 3 million.

 

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2.5 per household doesn’t make sense. America’s average is 2.51. Somalia’s gotta be at least 5 in the north and 6 in the south. 2.5 means we’re below replacement birth rate + young couples regularly delay pregnancy. It’s impossible.

And Xamar’s growing both horizontally and vertically. So It’s impossible to know for sure, but the upcoming 1p1v local election should give us something to work with.
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But I agree that many somalis tend to grossly overestimate their population. But HS, SWS and Xamar are undercounted. Mark my words

HS, Specially Middle Shabelle is grossly undercounted, I agree.

300,000 Hectares of Farmland outside of the river bed.

To give you an idea of the scale, this is the cultivated(rainfed) land between Jigjiga and Hargeisa. Which is about 768, 028 Hecctares. Middle Shabelle has 40% of this region that has a population of 3million.

Middle Shabelle has another 200,000 Hectares of irrigated Farmland

 

[Medeea]

Mogadishu’s population is close to 3 million.

Close to 4m.
If hargysa is 1.5m, how’s Xamar less than 3m??

 

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Mogadishu’s population is close to 3 million.

It was based on Garissa people per building, Xamar differs a lot from Garissa and Wajir, but those two cases are hard evidence. Those are numbers I can't argue with.

 

[Thegoodshepherd]

Garissa and Wajir could provide a lot of preliminary information on Somali towns.

• Population(2019)
• Garissa: 163,914
  • Assumption(2025) 200,000
• Wajir: 130,116
  • 160,000
• %: 80%
• 
  
• Buildings:
• Garissa 77,411
• Wajir: 62,856
• %: 82%

People per building 2.5 (Garissa)

Applied this ratio to Somalia towns:

Mogadishu: 1,223,015
Hargeisa: 413,107
Djibouti: 354,675
Jigjiga: 335,890
Baidoa: 218,200
Garissa: 200,000(assumption)
Wajir: 160,000(assumption)
Burao: 156,235
Kismayo: 141,050
Bosaso: 109,925

Depends a lot on how many multi story buildings were in Garissa. But Somalia is pretty much empty. Max population of 15 million people.

Disclaimer

The 2019 Kenyan census is not reliable in Somali inhabited counties.
Court orders fresh census in Mandera, Wajir and Garissa, quashes 2019 count

According to the 2019 census:

1. Wajir with 62,856 buildings has a population of 90,116.
2. Garissa with 77,411 buildings has a population of 163,399.
3. Mandera with 40,741 buildings has a population of 114,718.

This is of course laughable. If you take this data seriously, these three cities have an average household size of 2.03.