Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

Somalia has in the past claimed the areas of Djibouti inhabited by Somalis as part of the Greater Somalia idea.

Poster showing the Ogaden as part of Greater Somalia.

In July 1977, the Ogaden War broke out after Barre's government sought to incorporate the predominantly Somali-inhabited Ogaden region into a Pan-Somali Greater Somalia.

In July 1977, the Ogaden War broke out after Barre's government sought to incorporate the predominantly Somali-inhabited Ogaden region into a Pan-Somali Greater Somalia.

A goal of Somali nationalism ( Pan-Somalism ) is to unite the predominantly Somali-inhabited territories in the Horn of Africa into a pan-Somali Greater Somalia ( Soomaaliweyn ).

Like the Siad Barre regime and every Somali administration before it, the Islamic Courts Union and its successor Islamist groups are also proponents of Greater Somalia.

Barre advocated the concept of a Greater Somalia ( Soomaaliweyn ), which refers to those regions in the Horn of Africa in which ethnic Somalis reside and have historically represented the predominant population.

Greater Somalia thus encompasses Somalia, the republic of Djibouti, the Ogaden ( in modern day Ethiopia ) and the North Eastern Province ( in Kenya ) i. e. the almost exclusively Somali-inhabited regions of the Horn of Africa.

In July 1977, the Ogaden War broke out after the government sought to incorporate the various Somali-inhabited territories of the region into a Greater Somalia.

In July 1977, the Ogaden War broke out after Barre's government sought to incorporate the predominantly Somali-inhabited Ogaden region into a Pan-Somali Greater Somalia.

In August 1940 Benito Mussolini boasted to a group of Somalis in Rome that with the conquest of British Somalia ( that he annexed to Italian Somalia ) nearly all the Somali people were united, fulfilling their dream of a union of all Somalis ( Greater Somalia ).

In the 1970s, the town was a staging area for the Western Somali Liberation Front ( WSLF ), which sought to liberate the Ogaden and annex it to form a Greater Somalia.

It is often called Soomaaliya Galbeed (" Western Somalia ") on account of its geographical position within the Greater Somalia matrix.

There have been attempts to incorporate the area into a Greater Somalia.

Following their conquest of Italian East Africa, the British sought to let the Ogaden be unified with British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland, to realize Greater Somalia which was supported by many Ogaden Somalis.

Greater Somalia encompasses Somalia, Djibouti, the Ogaden of Ethiopia and the North Eastern Province of Kenya.

Map showing Greater Somalia colored in the Flag of Somalia | national flag of Somalia.

Greater Poland or Great Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; Latin: Polonia Maior ) is a historical region of west-central Poland.

Kinmen or Quemoy (; see also " Names " section below ) is a small archipelago of several islands administered by Republic of China ( Taiwan ): Greater Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, and some islets.

Corneliu Vadim Tudor (; born November 28, 1949 in Bucharest ) is leader of the Greater Romania Party ( Partidul România Mare ), writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament.

Cacique (; ; feminine form: cacica ), also cassique in archaic English, is a title derived from the Taíno word for the pre-Columbian chiefs or leaders of tribes in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles.

Władysław III Spindleshanks (; b. 1161 / 67 – 3 November 1231 ), of the Piast Dynasty, was Duke of Greater Poland ( during 1194 – 1202 over all the land and during 1202 – 1229 only over the southern part ), High Duke of Poland and Duke of Kraków during 1202 – 1206 and 1228 – 1231, Duke of Kalisz during 1202 – 1206, ruler of Lubusz during 1206 – 1210 and 1218 – 1225, and ruler over Gniezno during 1216 – 1217.

After the Communist putsch in the city parliament of Greater Berlin ( for all four sectors of Berlin ) in September 1948, separate parliaments and magistrates (; city government ) were formed for East and West Berlin.

The Greater Khingan Range (; ; Manchu:, Amba Hinggan ), also called the Greater Hing ' an Range or Greater Hinggan Range, is a volcanic mountain range in northeast China.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (; RTGS: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Lae Parimonthon ; Literally: Bangkok and surrounding provinces ), also known as Greater Bangkok, is the urban conglomeration of Bangkok, Thailand, which includes the city and the 5 adjacent provinces of Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Samut Sakhon.

Wojciechowski (; feminine: Wojciechowska ; plural Wojciechowscy ) is the 15th most common surname in Poland ( 66, 361 people ) and also the third most common in Greater Poland ( 12, 928 ).

Witold Jakóbczyk (; 1909 – 1986 ) was a Polish historian and professor at Poznań University, specializing in the history of Greater Poland in the 19th century.

Greater Caucasus (; ; ), sometimes translated as " Caucasus Major ", " Big Caucasus " or " Large Caucasus ") is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.

Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (; ) ( 1 September 1286 – 18 October 1335 ) was a daughter and the only surviving child of Przemysl II of Poland ( originally prince of Greater Poland and Poznan ) and his second wife Richeza of Sweden, herself a daughter of Valdemar I of Sweden and Sofia of Denmark.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

The Romanian expression România Mare ( literal translation " Great Romania ", but more commonly rendered " Greater Romania ") generally refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period, and by extension, to the territory Romania covered at the time ( see map ).

Please note: When this article refers to Santo Domingo it is most likely referring to the Greater Santo Domingo Area ( Distrito Nacional plus Santo Domingo Province ).

The sign in the background refers to the Greater Vancouver Gateway Program.

Although it implies a comparison with a narrower definition that refers to a central city only, such as Greater London versus the City of London, or Greater New York versus New York City, it is not part of the " comparative " in the grammatical sense this article describes.

In the United Kingdom, the name hackney carriage today refers to a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office in Greater London or by the local authority ( non-metropolitan district councils or unitary authorities ) in other parts of Great Britain, or by the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland.

The Greater Romania () generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First World War and the Second World War, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever ( 295, 049 km² ); more precisely, it refers to the territory of the Kingdom of Romania between 1919 and 1940.

Greater Manila generally refers to the contiguous urbanization surrounding Metro Manila.

Narrowly defined, the " Greater Netherlands " refers to an aspiration for the unification of the Netherlands and Flanders.

Culturally, the region is often seen as part of ' Farther India ' or Greater India -- the Coedes ' Indianized states of Southeast Asia ' refers to it as ' Island Southeast Asia '.

' Tharawal ' is the indigenous terminology that refers to the country and people who belong to Greater Southern and South-Western Sydney.

The cultural identity of the region is seen as part of ' Farther India ' or Greater India, as seen in Coedes ' ' Indianized states of Southeast Asia ', which refers to it as ' Island Southeast Asia '; while other authorities see it is as partly ( or heavily, in the case of Singapore ) sinicised, and yet others even suggest its own identity within Austronesia or Oceania.

Greater Israel occasionally refers to the Promised Land ( defined in ) or to the Land of Israel, and is also called Complete Land of Israel or " Entire Land of Israel " (, Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah ).

Most commonly, however, it refers to the economic and cultural-social region centered primarily on Dayton and the Greater Dayton area, including TV and radio markets.

* GIFT refers to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, hypothesizing anonymity and an audience can be enough to compel undesirable behavior from otherwise normal people.

The historical expression Greater Romania refers to the idea of recreating the former Kingdom of Romania which existed during the interwar period.

Today, when not referring to Wilsonian Armenia, Greater Armenia generally refers to the kingdom's borders under the Arsacid dynasty.

The name Greater Lebanon refers to the incorporation of the former Ottoman districts of Tripoli and Sidon as well as the Bekaa Valley to the existing former autonomous region of Mount Lebanon, which had been established in 1861 to protect the local Christian population.

Alaemon is a genus of larks, also known as the hoopoe-larks ( though this name, without the hyphen, also refers to the Greater Hoopoe-Lark ).

Greater Pennsylvania refers to this region as well as historically Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking areas of Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Greater Istanbul refers to the immediate city and centre of the Istanbul, Turkey and hence operates as a municipality and administrative area.