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Tohen
View on WikipediaTohen (Somali: Tooxin, Arabic: طوهآن) is a settlement in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia. It is situated in the autonomous Puntland region.
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Location
[edit]Tohen is located at 11°45′2.87″N 51°15′18.11″E / 11.7507972°N 51.2550306°E, on the northeastern coast of Somalia.[1] It faces the Guardafui Channel, and lies 5 nautical miles (6 miles) south of Cape Guardafui and the Gulf of Aden. The town of Bargal is located 30 nautical miles (35 miles) to the south.
Administration
[edit]On April 8, 2013, the Puntland government announced the creation of a new region coextensive with Tohen and Cape Guardafui, named Gardafuul. Carved out of the Bari region, it consists of three districts and has its capital at Alula.
In popular culture
[edit]Tohen and the neighboring lighthouse "Francesco Crispi" are depicted in Andrei Gusev's novel Once in Malindi (in Chapter 22).[2][3][4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Collins, Tales from Africa, (East African Publishers: 1995), p.67.
- ^ Review of "Once in Malindi" Archived 2021-12-22 at the Wayback Machine — on the site of public fund "Union of writers of Moscow", 2021 (in Russian)
- ^ "Once in Malindi" Archived 2020-10-16 at the Wayback Machine — on Proza.ru, 2020 (in Russian)
- ^ Андрей Гусев “Однажды в Малинди”, 2020 (in Russian). Archived 2020-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
