Has the longest coastline of any country in mainland Africa.
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Somalia
Federal Republic of Somalia ยท ุงูุตูู
ุงู
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
637.66Kkmยฒ of land
$463GDP / person
MogadishuCapital
- ISO codes
- SO ยท SOM
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, Somali
- Currency
- Somali shilling (SOS)
- Dial code
- +252
- Internet domain
- .so
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 3.5690ยฐ N, 45.1920ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Somali
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $4.72B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Somalia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
89th
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world population
Land area
43rd
of 242 ยท 0.43% of world land
GDP per person
234th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
204th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Somalia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,192,317 people, the 89th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 637,657 kmยฒ, making it the 43rd largest country here - about 6.9 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Mogadishu, at 2.07ยฐ N, 45.36ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,100,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Mogadishu.
The currency is the Somali shilling (SOS, symbol Sh).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and Somali.
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.
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Mogadishu
Banaadir
2.0686ยฐ N, 45.3647ยฐ E
1.1M
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Somalia.