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The capital is Mogadishu of this country of 8,591,629 people. Languages in use Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English. It's climate is principally desert; December to February - northeast monsoon, moderate temperatures in north and very hot in south; May to October - southwest monsoon, torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot and humid periods (tangambili) between monsoons. The currency is the Somali shilling and the country has an area of 627,337 km2. It's phone prefix is +252 and the electricity has 220 volts.


CIA - The World Factbook: Somalia
Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy,..
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/so.html

Wikipedia - Somalia
Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the history, government and politics, geography,..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

US Library of Congress - Country Study: Somalia
Somalia : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
rs6.loc.gov/frd/cs/sotoc.html

Somalia
Travel to Somalia — Unbiased reviews and great deals from TripAdvisor .
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107979.html

BBC News - Country Profile: Somalia
Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with..
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072592.stm

University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center: Somalia
This website provides news about latest developments on Somalia and the wider .
www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Somalia.html

Somalia's flagship and one of the largest ethnic sites : SomaliNet ...
Largest and most complete Somali, somalia, Somaliland and Puntland website with news,..
www.somalinet.com

Arab.net: Somalia
Explore the history, geography, and culture of this African country.
www.arab.net/somalia

allAfrica.com - Somalia
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience.
allafrica.com/somalia

Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara: Somalia
Somalia and Somaliland on the Internet.
library.stanford.edu/africa/somalia.html

Somalia (03/06)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy,..
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2863.htm

Somalia in the Yahoo! Directory
Yahoo!
dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Somalia

IRIN News - Somalia
The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) is a humanitarian news agency..
www.irinnews.org/frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=Somalia

Ethnologue - Languages of Somalia
Information about the living languages of the African country including language map,..
www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Somalia

Lonely Planet - World Guide: Somalia
Comprehensive facts and advice for traveling along with background material on the..
www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/africa/somalia

Terrorism Havens: Somalia - Council on Foreign Relations
Why is the Bush administration worried about terrorism in Somalia?
www.cfr.org/publication/9366

University of Texas Libraries - Somalia Maps
Country, city and thematic maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at..
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/somalia.html

Somalia Map
Country, city and thematic maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at..
www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/somalia.pdf

CIA - The World Factbook -- Somalia
Somalia's small industrial sector, based on the processing of .
stronghold.n00bless.com/cia/publications/factbook/print/so.html

Somalia News - Breaking World Somalia News - The New York Times
World news about Somalia.
topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/somalia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo

Travel Advice for Somalia - Australian Department of Foreign ...
We strongly advise you not to travel to Somalia because of widespread .
www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Somalia

Somalia Online
Welcome to Somalia Online - An independant pan Somali website .
www.somaliaonline.com

Human Rights Watch - Somalia
Reports, background briefings, testimony, press releases and commentary on the human..
www.hrw.org/africa/somalia.php

UNDP in Somalia
Official United Nations Development Programme site for Zambia provides news, speeches,..
www.so.undp.org

EUROPA - Development: EU Relations with Somalia
EU provides a country overview, country strategy, priorities for co-operation, major..
ec.europa.eu/comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=so&status=new

IANA | .so - Somalia
Root-Zone Whois Information .
www.iana.org/root-whois/so.htm

Political Resources on the Net - Somalia
Index of Somali political sites available on the Internet, with links to Parties,..
www.politicalresources.net/somalia.htm

HRW WORLD ATLAS - Somalia
note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali..
go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/somalia.htm

Somalia
Information for US Citizens Travelling abroad.
travel.state.gov/travel/somalia_warning.html

Weather Underground - Somalia
Displays current conditions for all major cities on one page, with five-day forecast..
www.wunderground.com/global/SI.html