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Somalia
Location marker · geographic overview
10° N / 49° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Population
- 19,009,151 2024
- Area
- 637,657 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Arabic, Somali
- Currency
- Somali shilling (SOS)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Somalia
Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال aṣ-Ṣūmāl) is a country on the Horn of Africa.
Landscape & landmarks
Liido Beach and Gezira Beach near Mogadishu are very beautiful.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Somali meals are meat driven; vegetarianism is relatively rare. Goat, beef, lamb or sometimes chicken is fried in ghee, grilled or broiled. It is spiced with turmeric, coriander, cumin and curry and eaten with basmati rice for lunch, dinner and sometimes breakfast.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-08. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Eastern Africa
- Calling code
- +252
- Internet domain
- .so
- Land border codes
- DJI, ETH, KEN
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .so. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.