Population is about 5,096,159 people, the 121st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,506 of everyone alive.
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Somaliland
Republic of Somaliland
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
-kmยฒ of land
$3.5KGDP / person
HargeisaCapital
- ISO codes
- SO ยท SOL
- Density
- -
- Languages
- -
- Currencies
- -
- Dial code
- -
- Internet domain
- -
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 9.4440ยฐ N, 46.7320ยฐ E
- Demonym
- -
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $17.84B
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Somaliland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
121st
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world population
Land area
241st
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
166th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
241st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Somaliland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
The capital is Hargeisa, at 9.56ยฐ N, 44.07ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 477,876.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Mogadishu.
Annual GDP is around $18 billion - the 122nd largest economy here, or about $3,500 per person.
Sits in Africa, in the Eastern Africa sub-region, and lies within the tropics, in the northern hemisphere.
Somaliland is a territory rather than a fully independent state.
This atlas plots 2 of its towns and cities on the map.
Identified by the ISO codes SO and SOL, and by the flag ๐ธ๐ด.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Mogadishu
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Hargeisa
9.5600ยฐ N, 44.0653ยฐ E
477.88K
2
Berbera
10.4356ยฐ N, 45.0164ยฐ E
242.34K