Key facts
- Country
- Somalia
- Regional state
- South West
- Capital
- Merca
- Type
- Federal State
- Governor
- Mohamed Ibrahim Barre
- Total
- 25,285 km (9,763 sq mi)
- Density
- 48.199/km (124.83/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Iso 3166 code
- SO-SH
- Hdi 2021
- 0.323 , low · 10th of 18
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Somalia
- Country
- Somalia
- Located in
- Somalia
- Contains
- Afgooye District
- Capital
- Merca
- Area
- 25285
- Image
- Marka,Somalia.jpg
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- language used
- Maay-Maay language
- topic's main category
- Category:Lower Shabelle
- Commons category
- Lower Shabele Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Lower Shabelle (Somali: Shabeellaha Hoose, Maay: Shibelithy Hoosy, Arabic: شبيلي السفلى, Italian: Basso Scebeli) is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lower Shebelle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.