Are you missing brain cells my comment was meant about land size not population
The only reason why I assumed he was talking about land size was because he threw up the 40% figure if he actually meant population then is no where near 40% I doubt is more than 15% where if he was talking about land size it would be 25-30% which is why assumed this since is closer.
Now I don't know how many times we go over this somalia isn't banadir where xamar=banadir district
Xudun district doesn't equal xudun town
Your smart comment doesn't put into equation the surrounding villages to xudun it doesn't take in to account the nomads. now instead of he said she said a UN affiliated group did a guess estimate few years ago and a decade ago between the 2 I'll break down the most logical guess estimate which was the 2005 one in that estimate it put xudun district (not just the town) at 18,000 the town was slightly over 3,000. taleh district had 25,000 inhabitants taleh town had slightly more than 4,000. aynabo district had 30,000 with the town having slightly over 6,000.
Las anod district had 75,000 with 24k living in Las anod itself.
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The baseless estimation hold no water. You and I both know the reality on the ground. There aren't 18,000 people roaming around in Xudun district. Do you even know how large 18,000 people is? That's a lot.
Garoowe and it's surrounding area which has surpassed Laascaanood in population has about 5,000 people and that's being very generous. Gaalkacyo has between 7,000 to 13,000 people (men, women and children) again, that's being generous. There are more sheep and goats than people.
Did you do a head count? Have you met and counted every person in somalia if not then no point in talking even if we go by your logic xamar would have 20k inhabitants.
18k isn't that large the neighborhood I live in currently has 8-10k outside of few hundred I never met all of them even though is only 1-2 miles in the whole neighborhood
It's very hard to know Mogadishu's exact population. Even an estimation is hard. You see, Mogadishu's land mass is huge. However, a lot of areas in the city are virtually empty. So, I am going to estimate Mogadishu's population between 250,00 to 750,000. Hargeisa might actually have slightly larger population than Mogadishu today.