Somalia

de facto borders

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Map of Somalia (de facto borders)Somalia highlighted among its neighbouring countries, with borders drawn as Natural Earth shows them: according to who controls the territory. Hover a neighbour to see its name.Scale at the country's latitude200 km

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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 historic and religious ties to the Arab world.

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The description on this page is shortened from “Somalia” on Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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