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Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال‎ transliteration: aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyada Soomaaliya, Arabic: جمهورية الصومال‎ transliteration: Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya on its southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen on its north, the Indian Ocean at its east, and Ethiopia to the west.

Trivia about somalia

  • This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent
  • In 1969 General Siad Barre led a military coup in this country on the horn of Africa
  • In September 1992, noted humanitarian Audrey Hepburn visited this famine-stricken African country
  • In 1992 supermodel Iman returned to this country of her birth for a documentary on the famine there
  • In the '90s Americans learned more about this African country highlighted here
  • In east Africa:Mogadishu
  • Gee, ghee is a big export from this country whose capital is Mogadishu
  • Trouble spot seen here
  • Mohammed Farah Aidid, a warlord of this country who battled U.S. forces in 1993, died in 1996
  • On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order
  • You balk at a trip to Mogadishu, this country's capital? What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?
  • Located on the Horn of Africa, this country is that continent's easternmost extension
  • Barren and arid, this troubled country hasn't had a real working central government since 1991
  • You can find "Mali" spelled out in the name of this other African country
  • Army Rangers' struggles in this country are depicted in "Black Hawk Down"
  • Of the countries that fit the category, it stretches farthest east
  • In November 2008 pirates based in this East African nation captured a Saudi Arabian oil tanker & demanded $25 mil.
  • Africa stretches about 4,700 miles from Cap Vert in the west to Raas Xaafuun in this country on the "Horn"
  • On Thurs., Jan. 11, 2007 the Times reported the first public U.S. Military action in this African nation since 1994
  • From Dec. 31, 2009 "recreational craft...risk seizure by pirates...in the intl. waters near" this African country

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