Monday, December 06, 2004

Which side of the road to they drive on?

I've found a great resource for all things loosely related to which side of the road they drive on in which countries.

As if living in Somalia wasn't hard enough, the breakaway Republic of Somaliland insists that you drive on the left, unlike the Republic of Somalia. Somalia was formed on July 1, 1960, with the uniting of the Somaliland Protectorate, which ceased to be a British colony five days earlier, with Italian Somalia, which was an Italian colony for about 10 years before it became administered as a UN trust territory in 1949. With this union, Somaliland, the northern part of the country, switched to driving on the right. In May of 1991, Somaliland declared its independence from the Republic of Somalia and switched back to driving on the left. No countries recognize the Republic of Somaliland, and so I guess that means we're supposed to drive on the right. Two regions of Somaliland, Sool and Sanaag, are also claimed by Puntland, which broke away from the Republic of Somalia in 1998, but which just wants to be an independent state in a Federation of Somalia. It's sounds to me like just not driving on either side of the road in Sanaag and Sool is the safest solution.

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