Somalia

Somalia

Somalia ranks 112th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, and Nepal. Memorable people born in present day Somalia include Waris Dirie, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and Siad Barre. Memorable people who died in Somalia include Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Abdirashid Shermarke. Somalia has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and mountaineers.

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though the former is the primary language. Somalia has historic and religious ties to the Arab world. As such the people in Somalia are Muslims, the majority of them Sunni. Read more on Wikipedia