abstract:British Somaliland (, ) was a British protectorate in the northern part of present-day Somalia. For much of its existence, British Somaliland was bordered by French Somaliland, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland.
To the north, the self-proclaimed breakaway state of Somaliland (once BritishSomaliland, the rest of Somalia being run by Italy until its defeat in the second world war) has been fairly well governed.