Gabiley

Gabiley غابيلي
City
Nomadic pedestrians in Gabiley.
Gabiley Location in Somaliland
Coordinates: 9°42′0″N 43°37′25″E / 9.70000°N 43.62361°E / 9.70000; 43.62361Coordinates: 9°42′0″N 43°37′25″E / 9.70000°N 43.62361°E / 9.70000; 43.62361
Country	Somaliland
Region	Gabiley District
Government
• Mayor	Mahamed-Amiin Omer Abdi
Population
• Total	79,765
Time zone	EAT (UTC+3)

Gabiley (Somali: Gabileh, Arabic: غابيلي‎‎), also known as Gebiley, is a town in the northwestern Woqooyi Galbeed province of Somaliland.

Gabiley is located 54 km west of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. The center of the Gabiley sub-region, it is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Aden, on the west by the Awdal region, on the east by Hargeisa, and on the south by the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

Because the majority of the people in the district have been settled there for the last 300 years, there are more major and minor towns in Gabiley district than anywhere else in Somaliland.

Major towns:

Minor towns:

Gabiley is one of the oldest towns in northern Somalia after Zeila, Berbera and Amud. Some stones left behind in the area were believed to have been earmarked for the construction of pyramids.

Gabiley has a population of around 79,675 inhabitants. The broader Gabiley District has a total population of 135,430 residents.

Gabiley is mainly inhabited by people from the Somali ethnic group. As of the late 1980s, the Jibriil Abokor sub-clans of the Habr Awal Isaaq were the main inhabitants of Gabiley.

Primary education is available throughout the district. The latter includes the smaller communities, which have their own primary schools. For post-secondary education, Timacade University was opened in 1999 to serve the needs of the town's students.

Gabiley has one operating general hospital. Opened in 2010, it provides medical services to the larger region. In 2016 the municipal government was led by Mahamed-Amiin Omer Abdi.

Gabiley is noted for its agricultural and farming industry, and is where most of the region's crops are produced. Crops grown in the area include corn, maize, wheat and barley, beans, peas and groundnuts, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, salad and cabbages, oranges, watermelon and papaya.