Baled Hawo (Somali: Beledxaawo or Buuloxaawo) is the second largest city in Gedo, the largest province in Somalia situated in the south western part of the country. Somali ( Af Soomaali, الصوماليه is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by ethnic Somalis Gedo ( Geedo) is an administrative region ( gobolka) formerly part of the historic Upper Juba Region, Somalia. Somalia ( Soomaaliya; الصومال) officially the Somali Republic ( Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya, جمهورية الصومال) and formerly known It has a major international airport. The city is the centre of the business and trade in the region. The original name is Buuloxaawo which means "Hut of Hawo", in honour of its first resident. The town is also the headquarters of Buuloxaawo District which, like most other districts in Gedo, is named after its chief town.
Baled Xawo was founded in 1910 by a woman by the named of Xaawo Aaden, the wife of a Somali soldier based across the border in Mandhera District in Kenya at the time. The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south It was named after Xawo Aden, the first and longest resident of the town. The name of the town literally means "City of Xawo" in Somali.
It was totally rebuilt in the early 1960s after the British burned the original town to ground.
Baled Hawo replaced Garbaharey as the capital of Gedo region in 1985. Garbahaarey is the capital of Gedo, the second largest and sixth most populous region ( gobolka) of Somalia. The border with Kenya and Ethiopia and its close proximity to Kismaayo brought wealth into the city, which made it grow dramatically. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Kismayo or Kismayu (Kismaayo كيسمايو; Chisimaio is a Port It then became Gedo's second largest town after Baardheere and one of the most important cities in Somalia. Bardera City ( Somali Baardheere) is an important agricultural and academic city in the Gedo region of Somalia. Songs and plays have been dedicated to the city by many well known Somali artists, praising its natural scenery and hospital and generous residents.
Public transportation is through public buses or blue and white share taxis, locally known as "white horses" or faras cadeyaal (in Somali). A taxis (plural taxes, ˈtæksiːz is an Innate behavioural response by an Organism to a directional stimulus. The taxis are usually minibuses that can sit at least twelve people and small sedans imported from Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Two people are responsible for each taxi, the driver and a Kirishboy (Garage Boy in English) who collects fares and calls out the taxi's destination.
The town is served by a makeshift, where a new paved landing opened in 2004. The old makeshift airport in the western district is used mostly by small craft and carrier jets. Neighboring cities in the region include Garbaharey, Luuq, Doollow, and Dhamasa. Garbahaarey is the capital of Gedo, the second largest and sixth most populous region ( gobolka) of Somalia. The city of Luuq or Lugh (لوك in Gedo region is one of the oldest cities in Somalia. Dhamasa is a small town situated in southern Somalia in the Gedo region
Ahmed Mohamed Yusuf, better known as Burkuus is the current Balad Hawo county chief or Gudoomiye in Somali. Burkuus's Balad Hawo district administration has established good working relations in the neighboring Somali populated Kenyan district of Mandhera. The administration has continued to negotiate the free movement of goods and people between the two border towns Balad Hawo, Somalia and Mandera, Kenya. There thousands of students who pass through border patrol each morning and make their journey back homes at the end of the day.