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Independence Day in Somaliland is an annual celebration held on May 18 in Somaliland to mark the polity’s declaration of independence from the rest of Somalia a unilateral proclamation which remains unrecognized the world over. Although internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia the twentieth anniversary of the territory’s self-declared independence was celebrated in 2011 at the National Palace in Hargeisa Somaliland’s capital with shops closing down for the day.

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