Somalia

Somalia is a country on the Horn of Africa. Once the centre of many powerful sultanates and an Italian colony, the country has been in a state of chaos and turmoil since the 1980s.
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is the capital and most populous city in Somalia. Once a beautiful city that merged Somali and Italian cultural and architectural traditions, much of it now lies in ruins after decades of civil war.

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is the capital of . It is one of the safest places in what the rest of the world still considers to be Somalia.

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, sometimes known as Maroodi Jeex, is one of the administrative regions of . Containing Somaliland's capital and two largest cities, it forms the most populous and important region in the country.

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is a self-declared republic on the recognised internationally to be part of Somalia. Local authorities declared the region's independence from Somalia in May 1991, but neither the Somali federal government nor any other country…

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occupies about a third of Somalia's territory, and is home to most of the fighting in the civil war.

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SSC–Khatumo is a region centred around the community in northwestern Somalia. It declared itself an autonomous state in 2012. It grew out of the SSC State, which stands for Sool, Sanaag and Cayn. It was renamed Waqooyi Bari on 30 July 2025.

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is a region in northeastern Somalia, which declared itself an autonomous state in the late 1990s. It borders SSC- to the west, Ethiopia to the southwest and the rest of Somalia to the south.

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is an administrative province of . This region is the second largest region in Somalia; the only region with two rivers and two international borders. has seven districts within its regional administration system.

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, officially State of Somalia, is a Federal Member State in central Somalia, with its capital at Dhusamareb. It is bordered to the north by the state of Somalia, to the west by the in , to the east by the Indian Ocean and to the south by the Hirshabelle state of Somalia.

was a Taleh-based anti-colonial monarchy during the reign of sultan Diiriye Guure that was situated in the modern North East State of Somalia region, founded in Dareemo Caddo which existed from 1896 until 1920.

Somalia

  • Type: Country with 9,560,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in Africa
  • Also known as: “Bundesrepublik Somalia”, “Cộng hoà Liên bang Somalia”, “Cộng hòa Liên bang Somalia”, “Federacia Respubliko Somalio”, “Federal Republic of Somalia”, “Federale Republiek Somalië”, “Förbundsrepubliken Somalia”, “Forbundsrepublikken Somalia”, “Forbundsstaten Somalia”, “Jamhuri ya Shirikisho la Somalia”, “Jamhuuriyada Demuqraadiga Soomaaliyeed”, “Jumhūrīyat aş Şūmāl al Fīdirālīyah”, “la République fédérale de Somalie”, “Repubblica Federale di Somalia”, “Repubblika Federali tas-Somalja”, “República Federal da Somália”, “República Federal de Somalia”, “República Federal de Somàlia”, “República Somali Democràtica”, “Republik Federal Somalia”, “Ri̱pobi̱lik Mundundung Somalya”, “so”, “SO”, “SOM”, “Somaal”, “Somaalia Liitvabariik”, “Somali Democratic Republic”, “Somali Republic”, “Somalía”, “Somalia lett-tääʹssväʹldd”, “Somalia lihttodásseváldi”, “Somália lihttodásseváldi”, “Somalia littotäsiväldi”, “Somalian liittotasavalta”, “Somálska federatívna republika”, “Somálská federativní republika”, “Soomaaliyeey toosoo”, “Szomáli Szövetségi Köztársaság”, “The Somali Republic”, “Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Σομαλίας”, “Афедеративтә Республика Сомали”, “Федеративна Республіка Сомалі”, “Федеративная Республика Сомали”, “جمهورية الصومال”, “جمهورية الصومال الديموقراطية”, “سوماليه”, “صوماليه”, “ፈደራላዊት ሪፓብሊክ ሶማልያ”, “ফেডাৰেল ৰিপাব্লিক অৱ ছোমালিয়া”, “소말리아 연방공화국”, “ソマリア民主共和国”, “ソマリア連邦共和国”, and “索马里联邦共和国”
  • Languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, and English
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: republic, sovereign state, federal republic, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
8.06° or 8° 3′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
48.1215° or 48° 7′ 17″ east
Population
9,560,000
Area
637,657 km² (246,201 miles²)
Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)
Capital
Currency
Shilling (SOS)
Phone code
.so
Internet domain
252
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424317039
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
51537
Wiki­data ID
Q1045
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Somalia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Сомали”
  • Achinese: “Somalia”
  • Adyghe: “Сомали”
  • Afrikaans: “Somalië”
  • Akan: “Somalia”
  • Albanian: “Somali”
  • Albanian: “Somalia”
  • Amharic: “ሱማሌ”
  • Amharic: “ሶማሊያ”
  • Amis: “Somalia”
  • Angika: “सोमालिया”
  • Arabic: “Aş Şūmāl”
  • Arabic: “الصومال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية الصومال الفيدرالية”
  • Aragonese: “Somalia”
  • Armenian: “Սոմալի”
  • Arpitan: “Somalie”
  • Assamese: “চোমালিয়া”
  • Assamese: “ছোমালিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Somalia”
  • Atayal: “Somalia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somaliya”
  • Balinese: “Somalia”
  • Bambara: “Somali”
  • Banjar: “Somalia”
  • Bashkir: “Сомали”
  • Basque: “Somalia”
  • Bavarian: “Somalia”
  • Belarusian: “Самалі”
  • Bengali: “সোমালি”
  • Bengali: “সোমালিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Somali”
  • Bhojpuri: “सोमालिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “সোমালিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Somalia”
  • Bosnian: “Somalija”
  • Breton: “Somalia”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомалия”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုမာလီယာ”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုမာလီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Somàlia”
  • Cebuano: “Somalia”
  • Cebuano: “Somaliya”
  • Central Bikol: “Somalya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Somalia”
  • Central Kurdish: “سۆماڵیا”
  • Chavacano: “Somalia”
  • Chechen: “Сомали”
  • Cherokee: “ᏐᎹᎵ”
  • Chinese: “Suǒmǎlǐ”
  • Chinese: “索馬利亞”
  • Chinese: “索馬里”
  • Chinese: “索马里 / 索馬利亞”
  • Chinese: “索马里”
  • Cornish: “Somali”
  • Corsican: “Somalia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Somaliya”
  • Croatian: “Somalija”
  • Czech: “Somálsko”
  • Dagbani: “Somalia”
  • Danish: “Somalia”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޯމާލިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Somalya”
  • Dinka: “Thomalia”
  • Dotyali: “सोमालिया”
  • Dutch: “Somalië”
  • Dzongkha: “སོ་མ་ལི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “སོ་མཱ་ལི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сомали”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الصومال”
  • Esperanto: “Somalio”
  • Esperanto: “Somalujo”
  • Estonian: “Somaalia”
  • Ewe: “Somalia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Somalia”
  • Extremaduran: “Somália”
  • Farefare: “Somalia”
  • Faroese: “Somalia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Somalia”
  • Finnish: “Somalia”
  • Fon: “Somalitò”
  • French: “Somalie”
  • Fulah: “Somaaliya”
  • Fulah: “Somalii”
  • Ga: “Somalia”
  • Gagauz: “Somali”
  • Galician: “Somalia”
  • Ganda: “Somalia”
  • Ganda: “Somaliya”
  • Georgian: “სომალი”
  • German: “Somalia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Somalia”
  • Gilaki: “سۊمالي”
  • Goan Konkani: “सोमालिया”
  • Greek: “Σομαλία”
  • Guarani: “Somália”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Somali”
  • Gujarati: “સોમાલિયા”
  • Haitian: “Somali”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Somalia”
  • Hausa: “Somaliya”
  • Hawaiian: “Somalia”
  • Hebrew: “סומליה”
  • Hindi: “सोमालिया”
  • Hungarian: “Szomália”
  • Icelandic: “Sómalía”
  • Ido: “Somalia”
  • Igbo: “Somalia”
  • Iloko: “Somalia”
  • Inari Sami: “Somalia”
  • Indonesian: “Somalia”
  • Interlingua: “Somalia”
  • Interlingue: “Somalia”
  • Irish: “an tSomáil”
  • Irish: “An tSomáil”
  • Italian: “Somalia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Somaalia”
  • Japanese: “ソマリア”
  • Javanese: “Somalia”
  • Kabiyè: “Soomaali”
  • Kabyle: “Ṣumal”
  • Kalaallisut: “Somalia”
  • Kalmyk: “Сомалмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಮಾಲಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಮಾಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Somali”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Somalia”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сомали”
  • Karekare: “Somaliya”
  • Kashmiri: “سومالِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “صومالیہ”
  • Kazakh: “Сомали”
  • Khmer: “សូម៉ាលី”
  • Kikuyu: “Somalia”
  • Kikuyu: “Somaria”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Somaliya”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомали”
  • Komering: “Somalia”
  • Kongo: “Somalia”
  • Kongo: “Sômâlia”
  • Korean: “소말리아”
  • Kotava: “Somalia”
  • Kurdish: “Somalya”
  • Kurdish: “سۆمالیا”
  • Ladin: “Somalia”
  • Ladino: “Somalia”
  • Lao: “ໂຊມາເລຍ”
  • Latin: “Somalia”
  • Latvian: “Somālija”
  • Ligurian: “Somalia”
  • Limburgan: “Somalië”
  • Lingala: “Somali”
  • Lingala: “Somalia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Somalia”
  • Literary Chinese: “索馬里”
  • Lithuanian: “Somalis”
  • Livvi: “Somali”
  • Lojban: “somalias”
  • Lombard: “Sumalia”
  • Low German: “Somalia”
  • Low German: “Somalie”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Somalija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Somali”
  • Lule Sami: “Somálla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Somalia”
  • Macedonian: “Сомалија”
  • Madurese: “Somalia”
  • Magahi: “सोमालिया”
  • Maithili: “सोमालिया”
  • Malagasy: “Somalia”
  • Malagasy: “Sômalia”
  • Malay: “Somalia”
  • Malayalam: “സൊമാലിയ”
  • Malayalam: “സോമാലിയ”
  • Maltese: “is-Somalja”
  • Maltese: “Somalja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯣꯃꯥꯂꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Tomaal”
  • Manx: “Yn Tomaal”
  • Maori: “Hūmārie”
  • Marathi: “सोमालिया प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Marathi: “सोमालिया”
  • Mazanderani: “سومالی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Somalia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somalia”
  • Minangkabau: “Somalia”
  • Mingrelian: “სომალი”
  • Mirandese: “Somália”
  • Moksha: “Сомалия”
  • Mon: “သဝ်မာလဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Сомали”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصومال”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صومال”
  • Nauru: “Tomariya”
  • Navajo: “Bilį́į́łání Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Navajo: “Soomáálii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सोमालिया”
  • Newari: “सोमालिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Somaliya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Somaalia”
  • Northern Luri: “سومالی”
  • Northern Sami: “Somalia”
  • Northern Sami: “Somália”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somalia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somalia”
  • Norwegian: “Somalia”
  • Novial: “Somalia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Somalia”
  • Nyanja: “Somalia”
  • Obolo: “Somalia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Somalia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܨܘܡܐܠ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sōmalia”
  • Oriya: “ସୋମାଲିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Somaaliyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Сомали”
  • Pali: “सोमालिया”
  • Pampanga: “Somalia”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਮਾਲੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Somalia”
  • Pedi: “Somalia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Somaali”
  • Persian: “سومالی”
  • Piemontese: “Somalia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Somalia”
  • Polish: “Somalia”
  • Portuguese: “Somália”
  • Pushto: “سوماليا”
  • Pushto: “سومالیا”
  • Quechua: “Somalia”
  • Quechua: “Sumalya”
  • Romanian: “Somalia”
  • Romansh: “Somalia”
  • Rundi: “Somaliya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сомали”
  • Russian: “Сомали”
  • Rusyn: “Сомальско”
  • Sakizaya: “Somalia”
  • Samoan: “Somalia”
  • Samogitian: “Suomalis”
  • Sango: “Somalïi”
  • Sanskrit: “सोमालिया”
  • Sardinian: “Somàlia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Somalia”
  • Scots: “Somalie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Somàilia”
  • Serbian: “Somalija”
  • Serbian: “Сомалија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somalija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသူဝ်ႇမႃးလီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Somalia”
  • Shona: “Somariya”
  • Sicilian: “Somalia”
  • Silesian: “Sůmalijo”
  • Sindhi: “سوماليا”
  • Sindhi: “صوماليا”
  • Sinhala: “සෝමාලියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Somalia”
  • Slovak: “Somálsko”
  • Slovenian: “Somalija”
  • Somali: “Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya”
  • Somali: “Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed”
  • Somali: “Soomaaliya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سومالی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Somalia”
  • Spanish: “Somalia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵚⵓⵎⴰⵍⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵚⵚⵓⵎⴰⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Somalia”
  • Swahili: “Somali”
  • Swahili: “Somalia”
  • Swati: “ISomaliya”
  • Swedish: “Somalia”
  • Swiss German: “Somalia”
  • Sylheti: “ꠍꠥꠝꠣꠟꠤꠀ”
  • Tagalog: “Somalia”
  • Tajik: “Сомалӣ”
  • Tajik: “Сумолӣ”
  • Tamil: “சொமாலியா”
  • Tamil: “சோமாலியா”
  • Taroko: “Somalia”
  • Tatar: “Сомали”
  • Telugu: “సొమాలియా”
  • Telugu: “సోమాలియా”
  • Thai: “โซมาเลีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโซมาเลีย”
  • Tibetan: “སོ་མ་ལི།”
  • Tibetan: “སོ་མཱལི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሱማሌ”
  • Tigrinya: “ሶማሊያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ሶማልያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sōmalia”
  • Tsonga: “Somalia”
  • Tswana: “Somalia”
  • Tulu: “ಸೊಮಾಲಿಯಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Somalia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الصومال”
  • Turkish: “Somali”
  • Turkmen: “Somali”
  • Twi: “Somalia”
  • Tyap: “Somalya”
  • Udmurt: “Сомали”
  • Uighur: “سومالى”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомалі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Somalija”
  • Urdu: “صومالیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Somali”
  • Venetian: “Somałia”
  • Veps: “Somali”
  • Vietnamese: “Somalia”
  • Vietnamese: “Xô-ma-li”
  • Vlaams: “Somalië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Somaliya”
  • Volapük: “Somalän”
  • Võro: “Somaalia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somalia”
  • Welsh: “Somalia”
  • Western Balochi: “سومالیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Somaalje”
  • Western Frisian: “Somalië”
  • Western Panjabi: “صومالیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “صومالیہ”
  • Wolof: “Somali”
  • Wu Chinese: “索马里”
  • Yakut: “Сомалия”
  • Yiddish: “סאמאליע”
  • Yiddish: “סאמאַליע”
  • Yoruba: “Somalia”
  • Yoruba: “Sòmálíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “索馬里”
  • Zeeuws: “Somaolië”
  • Zhuang: “Somalia”
  • Zulu: “i-Somalia”
  • Zulu: “ISomalia”
  • Zulu: “ISomaliya”
  • “ma Somalija”
  • “Somalia”
  • “सोमालिया”

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