Somalia
Africa · Eastern Africa
Key facts
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Region
- Africa
- Subregion
- Eastern Africa
- Population (2025)
- 19.7 million (19,654,739) · rank 66 of 193
- Area (2023)
- 637,657 km² · rank 42 of 193
- People per km²
- 31 (calculated from the two figures above)
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2025, 2023), CC BY 4.0. data.worldbank.org
Test yourself
The first question is always Somalia, then four more countries of the same region.
Unfolding the map…
Neighbours on the map
Countries whose outline shares a border with Somalia in the map data: 2.
Somalia also touches land that the map shows in grey: areas that are disputed or not independent, which the quizzes leave out.
Based on the Natural Earth 1:110m outlines. The 29 states drawn as dots are not counted as neighbours.
The flag
Flags with a similar colour layout, used as wrong options on Hard: Micronesia, Guatemala, Greece, Palau.
In the quizzes
The levels on which Somalia is asked in each selection:
In four languages
| Country | Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Somalia | Mogadishu |
| Italiano | Somalia | Mogadiscio |
| Magyar | Szomália | Mogadishu |
| Suomi | Somalia | Mogadishu |