Baidoa

Baidoa (Somali:Baydhabo) is a ceety in sooth-central Somalie, situatit 256 kilometers (159 miles) bi road northwast o the caipital Mogadishu. It is the caipital o the Bay region, which is traditionally inhabitit bi the Digil an Mirifle (Rahanweyn) clans.

Baidoa is the third lairgest ceety in Somalie, the fowert maist important efter Kismayo. For a brief period during the mid-2000s, it is an aa served as the naition's provisional caipital. Its population is estimatit ower 800,000.