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'''Burao''', also spelt '''Bur'o''' or '''Bur'ao'''<ref name="undp" /> ({{respell|Burr|OH}}; {{lang-so|Burco}}, {{IPA|so|Burˈʕo|IPA}}, {{lang-ar|برعو}}), is the capital of the [[Togdheer]] region<ref name="Sqfirhbmsscf">{{Cite web|url=http://wardheernews.com/Articles_2010/June/Buh/29_Somaliland_recognition_&_the_HBM-SSC_Factor.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528122058/http://wardheernews.com/Articles_2010/June/Buh/29_Somaliland_recognition_%26_the_HBM-SSC_Factor.html|url-status=dead|title=Somaliland's Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor|archive-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> and the second largest city in northern Somalia .<ref>{{Cite book |last=Briggs |first=Philip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cop5DwAAQBAJ&dq=burao+second+largest+city&pg=PA121 |title=Somaliland: with the overland route from Addis Ababa via eastern Ethiopia |date=2019 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=978-1-78477-605-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mines |first=International Campaign to Ban Land |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiwJHi8Pa2IC&dq=burao+second+largest+city&pg=PA212 |title=Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-free World |date=1999 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |isbn=978-1-56432-231-9 |pages=212 |language=en}}</ref> Burao was the site of the [[Somaliland Declaration of Independence|declaration of an independent Somaliland]] on 18 May 1991.<ref name="Somaliland History">{{cite web|url=http://www.world66.com/africa/somaliland/history|title=Somaliland History|access-date=17 July 2007|work=World66|publisher=Internet Brands|quote=In 1991, after the collapse of the Somalilad government |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930153915/http://www.world66.com/africa/somaliland/history|archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref>