Where is Somalia?
Somalia is a country in Eastern Africa, bordered by Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
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Crazy but True
Somalia has the longest coastline of any country on mainland Africa, running roughly 3,300 kilometers along the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden. The country is also home to Laas Geel, cave paintings estimated at 5,000 to 11,000 years old and remarkably vivid.
Somalia facts
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Population
- 19,654,739 (2025)
- Area
- 637,657 km²
- Continent
- Africa
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Currency
- Somali shilling (SOS)
- Languages
- Arabic and Somali
- Coordinates
- 10°, 49°
- Landlocked
- No
- Country code
- SO · SOM
How Somalia compares
- Somalia is the 42nd largest of the 168 countries on our map by area.
- It is smaller than Afghanistan and larger than the Central African Republic.
- It is the 66th most populous of the 167 with population data.
- It shares land borders with 3 countries.
- Within Africa, it is the 18th largest of 49 countries by area.