Editing Lower Shabelle (section)

{{Short description|Region in Somalia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Lower Shabelle
| native_name              = <small>''Shibelithy Hoosy''<br>''Shabeellaha Hoose''</small><br><small> شبيلي السفلى </small>
| other_name               = Basso Scebeli
| nickname                 = 
| motto                    = 
| settlement_type          = [[Administrative divisions of Somalia|Region]]
| image_skyline            = 
| imagesize                = 
| image_caption            = The [[Merca]] beachside.
| image_flag               = Flag of South West State of Somalia.svg
| image_seal               = 
| image_shield             = Southwest somalia emblem.jpg
| image_map                = Somalia_regions_map_Shabeellaha_Hoose.svg
| mapsize                  = 250px
| map_caption              = Location in Somalia
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|Somalia}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[States and regions of Somalia|Regional State]]
| subdivision_name1        = {{Flagicon image|Flag of South West State of Somalia.svg}} [[South West State of Somalia|South West]]
| seat_type                = Capital
| seat                     = [[Merca]]
| government_type          = Federal State
| leader_title             = Governor
| leader_name              = Mohamed Ibrahim Barre<ref name="Etfdre">{{cite web|title=News in Brief, 21st March 2014|url=http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/news_archive/A%20Week%20in%20the%20Horn%2021.03.14.pdf|publisher=Embassy of The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|access-date=11 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714120646/http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/news_archive/A%20Week%20in%20the%20Horn%2021.03.14.pdf|archive-date=14 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| established_title        = 
| established_date         = 
| area_magnitude           = 
| area_total_km2           = 25,285 
| population_as_of         = 2019<ref>{{Cite web |title=Somalia: Subdivision and cities |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/somalia/|access-date=2024-02-14 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref>
| population_note          = 
| population_total         = 1,218,700
| population_density_km2   = auto
| timezone                 = [[East Africa Time|EAT]]
| utc_offset               = +3
| coordinates              = {{coord|1|46|6|N|44|23|24|E|region:SO-SH_type:adm1st|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_m              = 
| elevation_ft             = 
| iso_code                 = [[ISO 3166-2:SO|SO-SH]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SO | title = ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions | publisher = International Organization for Standardization (ISO) | access-date = 3 February 2025}}</ref>
| postal_code_type         = 
| postal_code              = 
| area_code                = 
| blank_name_sec2          = [[Human Development Index|HDI]] (2021)
| blank_info_sec2          = 0.323<ref name="GlobalDataLab">{{Cite web|url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-13}}</ref><br/>{{color|#500|low}} · [[List of regions of Somalia by Human Development Index|10th of 18]]
| website                  = 
| footnotes                = 
}}

'''Lower Shabelle''' ({{langx|so|Shabeellaha Hoose}},<ref>[http://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ GeoNames Search]</ref> {{langx|ymm|Shibelithy Hoosy}}, {{langx|ar|شبيلي السفلى}}, {{langx|it|Basso Scebeli}}) is an administrative region (''[[Administrative divisions of Somalia|gobol]]'') in southern [[Somalia]].<ref name="Cwfsom">{{cite web|title=Somalia|work=The World Factbook|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|location=Langley, Virginia|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/|access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref>