Somalia
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- SO
- ISO alpha-3
- SOM
- ISO numeric
- 706
- FIPS 10-4
- SO
- GeoNames ID
- 51537
Key facts
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Area
- 637,657 km²
- Population
- 15,008,154
- Currency
- Shilling (SOS)
- Calling code
- +252
- Top-level domain
- .so
- Official languages
- so-SO,ar-SO,it,en-SO
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 6
- Longitude
- 48
- Min latitude
- -1.6963029929999607
- Min longitude
- 40.96538537600014
- Max latitude
- 11.989118646000065
- Max longitude
- 51.41703781100006
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SO?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 637657,
"capital": "Mogadishu",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "SOS",
"iso3_code": "SOM",
"iso_code": "SO",
"name": "Somalia",
"population": 15008154
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/SO/regions/v1/cities?country=SO/v1/postal-codes?country=SO/v1/timezones?country=SO
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الصومال
- Chinese
- 索马里
- English
- Somalia
- French
- Somalie
- German
- Somalia
- Hindi
- सोमालिया
- Italian
- Somalia
- Japanese
- ソマリア
- Korean
- 소말리아
- Portuguese
- Somália
- Russian
- Сомали
- Spanish
- Somalia
- Total language variants
- 187
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Mogadishu | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- @@ #####
- Pattern
^([A-Z]{2}\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Gobolka Hiiraan
- Gobolka Banaadir
- Gobolka Bay
- Gobolka Woqooyi Galbeed
- Gobolka Shabeellaha Hoose
- Gobolka Galguduud
- Gobolka Mudug
- Gobolka Bari
- Gobolka Awdal
- Gobolka Sanaag
- Gobolka Nugaal
- Gobolka Shabeellaha Dhexe
- Gobolka Gedo
- Gobolka Bakool
- Gobolka Jubbada Dhexe
- Gobolka Togdheer
- Gobolka Sool
- Gobolka Jubbada Hoose
18 of 18 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Mogadishu | 2,587,183 |
| Borama | 597,842 |
| Hargeysa | 477,876 |
| Berbera | 242,344 |
| Kismayo | 234,852 |
| Marka | 230,100 |
| El Dibir | 200,000 |
| Ruqi | 148,702 |
| Baidoa | 129,839 |
| Cabudwaaq | 120,000 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 4,510
- First-level regions
- 18
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 187
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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