Somalia (som)

Somalia

Somalia ranks 4,593rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mercedes, Uruguay, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and Serbia and Montenegro. Memorable people born in Somalia include Fartuun Adan, Asha Haji Elmi, and Leyla Hussein. Somalia has been the birth place of many social activists, and politicians. Somalia is located in Somalia.

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