Berbera for the capital of Somaliland?

[Nabadiyocaano]

Burco is a dusty place in the middle of nowhere, what would be the advantage of having that as a capital? Berbera is hot but is situated by the sea so the sea-breeze would help to cool you down. Why are you all complaining about a little heat? Ma dumar bad tihiin?

Because historically Burco used to be the Commercial center of the country. It had a very important role for livestock, some even previously say it was the most important city.
But for reasons such as weather e.g. dangerous sandstorms, Hargeisa became the more important and is the city where the government historically resides.

Sheikh is a beautiful city as well where my awoowe is from

I agree Sheikh is a beautiful place but I wouldn't like to spoil it my making it into a capital city. Developing it for tourism as it has all the making of one.

[Methylamine]

Salaxlay should be the capital

[Mckuus]

Berbera


Hargeisa


Hargeisa is much better....

[ZubeirAwal]

Hargeisa is indeed more populated with an estimated 1.3 million population whilist berbera has only 200,000.
But berbera has alot of potential.

[AsadSL]

Burco for capital

[Mckuus]

Hargeisa is indeed more populated with an estimated 1.3 million population whilist berbera has only 200,000.
But berbera has alot of potential.

Why do Somalis always lie about how many people live in their towns...

Real population sizes:

Hargeisa: 560,028

Berbera: 60,753

SOURCE: Somalia Water and Land Information Management - see page 11 of the report.

[abdikarim86]

Most of Sland's population live in the cooler inland cities.
Why would anyone want to move to hell on earth aka Berbera?

[adam2000]

let berbera be the dubai or jeddah of somaliland

[adam2000]

let berbera be the dubai or jedah of somaliland.

[AsadSL]

Another coastal town in eastern saaxil or sanaag would make a great port capital. Berbera is too close to hargisea.