Samhah

Samhah

Samhah is a inhabited island of the Socotra archipelago, between the main island of Socotra, and Somalia. Like the whole group, it belongs to Yemen, specifically to Hadhramaut Governorate. It measures 40 km² in area, making it the smallest of the three inhabited islands of the group, after the main island of Socotra and Abd al Kuri. The population of some 100 lives in a village on the western part of the north coast. Samhah and neighboring Darsah (17 km to the east) are collectively known as Al Ikhwān (The Brothers). Somalia also claims this Island.


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