AwdalState (Somali: AwdalState, Arabic: ��� �����, Italian: Terra di Punt or Paese di Punt), officially the AwdalState of Somalia (Somali: Dowlad Goboleedka AwdalState ee Soomaaliya, Arabic: ����� ��� ����� ���������), is a Federal Member State in northwest Somalia. The capital city is the city of Borama in the Awdal region, and its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 2009. Geographically to the west, AwdalState lays claim To the east it borders Maroodi Jeex to its north-west it borders Djibouti; to its south and south-west lies Ethiopia; and the Gulf of Aden to its north.[6] The province has an estimated population of 1,010,566.[7] 