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Hiiraan (region (administrative division)) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 04 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 4.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 045 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 45.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Former part of the United Nations Trust Territory of Somalia, governed by Italy until 1960; inhabited mainly by the semi-nomadic Rahanweyn peoples, who subsist by raising animals; Shabeelle river runs southward through the whole length of Hiiraan. |
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| Hiiraan (preferred,C,V,English)
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| Hiiraan (Somali)
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| Hiiraan (French)
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| Hiran (C,V)
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| Gobolka Hiiraan (C,U,O,Somali-P)
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| Commissariat de l’Uebi Scebeli (C,U,Italian-P)
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| Hiiran (C,U)
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| Hiiran Region (C,U,English)
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| Province of Hiran (C,U,English-P)
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| SO07 (C,U,FIPS)
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| Uebi Scebeli (C,U,Italian)
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| حيران (C,U,Arabic)
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Hiiraan (region (administrative division)) (P) |
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| region (administrative division) (preferred, C) |
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reorganized 1973 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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