Population census in .So is just an estimation on a wide scale and larger margin of error, with very little accuracy critical to demographics data tabulation, for the population is largely either nomadic or concentrated in rural areas, as would be expected.
On the case of SL, one question I have been asking myself was: to where have all the nomads and rural villagers between Hargeysa and Burco disappeared? I drove through that route a few times over the years, and there are not many nomads or villages, but a few, to be seen with the exception possibly being if one was to take the old direct route by khat traders, as been told, cutting through Oodweyne. But the question remains: where have all the nomads and villagers in between gone? And outside of Hargeysa, where are the other 5 million people living? Historically, Togdheer of its Hawd/Western parts, was the hub for nomads, but sadly not any more. True, most residents of Hargeysa now are not natives to the city nor their families, but surely not to that extreme migration. Or is it?
It is quite the opposite between Hargeysa and Awdal region. Barring that, one sees not many, till one has reached Caynaba through Nugaal to Mudug, where one encounters more nomads and rural villages, and even more so through the route connecting Galkacyo to Garacad (I have seen and interacted with more nomads and villagers in the 150 mile drive than between Hargeysa and Burco, 200 miles).
In DDS, from Jigjida to Galdogob traversing through Dhagaxbuur, Bookh and Bursaalax are what one would expect, a beautiful 500 mile drive, full of nomads and rural land, a lovely part of the country.
On the case of SL, one question I have been asking myself was: to where have all the nomads and rural villagers between Hargeysa and Burco disappeared? I drove through that route a few times over the years, and there are not many nomads or villages, but a few, to be seen with the exception possibly being if one was to take the old direct route by khat traders, as been told, cutting through Oodweyne. But the question remains: where have all the nomads and villagers in between gone? And outside of Hargeysa, where are the other 5 million people living? Historically, Togdheer of its Hawd/Western parts, was the hub for nomads, but sadly not any more. True, most residents of Hargeysa now are not natives to the city nor their families, but surely not to that extreme migration. Or is it?
It is quite the opposite between Hargeysa and Awdal region. Barring that, one sees not many, till one has reached Caynaba through Nugaal to Mudug, where one encounters more nomads and rural villages, and even more so through the route connecting Galkacyo to Garacad (I have seen and interacted with more nomads and villagers in the 150 mile drive than between Hargeysa and Burco, 200 miles).
In DDS, from Jigjida to Galdogob traversing through Dhagaxbuur, Bookh and Bursaalax are what one would expect, a beautiful 500 mile drive, full of nomads and rural land, a lovely part of the country.
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