Bossaso Travel Guide
Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and seeBossaso is the provisional capital of Bari state. It has international airport as well as sea port which is most imortant in the country.
Bosaso ( Somali : Boosaaso ) is a large city in Somalia and the main port of Somalia (since the start of the Somali Civil War in 1991). Situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden ( 11°17′0.70″N 49°10′52.10″E / 11.2835278 , 49.1811389 ) at the estuary of Baalade Wadi , it is the de facto capital of the Bari region ( gobolka ) in the autonomous republic of Puntland .
Formerly known as Bender Qassim , Boosaaso governs seven districts: Qandala, Caluula, Iskushuban, Bandar Bayla, Carmo . Baargaal, and Qardho . The population in August 2006 was estimated at about 450,000 (up from about 30,000 in the 1990s).
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