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Borama

Borama is the largest city of the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland.

Borama
Borama · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Borama is the largest city of the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland. The commercial seat of the province, it is situated near the border with Ethiopia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Borama

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Amoud University

    Amoud University is a comprehensive public university, located in the city of Borama in Somaliland. The university started in 1998 with 66 students in two faculties, and three teachers.

    4.4 km · public university in Somaliland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Amud

    Amud or Amoud is an ancient, ruined town in the Awdal region of Somaliland. Amud once served as one of the old capitals of the Adal Sultanate.

    8.8 km · archaeological site in Somalia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Borama

Airports
Gerad Wilwal (JIJ), 73 km · Egal (HGA), 109 km · Aba Tenna Dejazmach Yilma (DIR), 150 km
Stations
Boorama Airport, 3.8 km
  • Hargeisa → Borama
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $10–14
  • Bosaso → Borama
    673 km · quickest by road, 21h 38m · $80–110
  • Jijiga → Borama
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · Br300–395
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Borama

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Borama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LalibelaET

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  2. 02
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,383 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,617 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,633 km
  5. 05
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,671 km

If you know how people move in Borama – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.