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Not surprising given it's location. It's sits on a vital trade route and if you follow the banks of the river for about 30km on either end of the city, you'll notice that it's doted with numerous smaller settlements a few km apart from each other. The city serves as a nerve center for a densely populated area of the region.Geoseven have you seen how large beledweyne is?? Very surprising to say the least. It is equal in size to galkcyo or to burco
Galkayo doesn't have a "airport" it is just a dusty airstrip, Burco got one recently as well. In terms of infrastructure Burco has lots
of good bridges and wide paved roads that a city should have. It is ahead of Galkayo in most aspects.
miskiin Hargeisa is also asphaltIt is still not a proper airport. Not much difference between "rough asphalt" and dirt one.
There are only four "real" airports in Somali areas. Hargeisa, Berbera, Mogadishu, Kismayo.
Fair enough, if we were to look at pop figure estimates only, we'd have to look at the yardstick for a city. Somalia only has a population of 10 million at the most. In a country of size you'd relatively have to lower the boundaries of the conditions for a city status. Mogadishu is an extreme case as its the only city in Somalia that surpasses 1 million, Hargesia isnt very far away to 1 million; would it be fair to make 1 million the condition in which a town becomes a city? if we took this route we'd only have one city in the country. Similarly Hargesia and Moqdishu are the only places which surpass 500,000. I think the conditions for a city would have to be lowered if we are purely measuring by population. In my opinion atleast 200,000 would be fair.Yep, pretty much relative knowledge. It's not factual or categorically accurate like you've stated. I'm just going by the pop figure estimates and the assumed complexity of facilities or infrastructure in place.You are just ascribing statuses based on relative knowledge, it would be unfair to compare the US for example which is a much larger country than Somalia and use its relative conditions and use the same for Somalia which is much smaller. City status is handed down by the government of a country; it could be no larger than your typical town in the United Kingdom but at the same it could have building, financial strength, political influence that grants it city status.Major City - Muqdisho
City- Hargeisa
Mid sized towns- Kismayo, Gaalkacyo, Baidoa, Bosaso, Borama, Beledweyne and Burco
Everywhere else in Somalia is either a small town or village.
Garowe can be given city (mainly because it capital and governental status) despite the fact that the urban area only has a population of 70,000. Case in point, Hum has a city status despite the fact that it only has 23 people live there.
There is more money in Burco West city alone than the entire mosquito infested Galkayo .
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