Map of Somalia

Somalia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 10.0° N, 49.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Somalia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Somalia shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Somalia covers about 637,657 km² (246,201 sq mi). That makes it the 41st-largest country in the world by area and the 18th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 36 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 19,655,000, the 66th-largest in the world and the 23rd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Somalia has an average population density of about 31 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 23rd by population and 18th by area.

The seat of government is Mogadishu, and the official currency is the Somali shilling (SOS, Sh), and the main official languages are Arabic and Somali. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Somalia carries the ISO country codes SO and SOM, dials on the international calling code +252 and uses the .so internet domain.

Somalia shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Kenya (capital Nairobi, about 53,330,978 people) and Djibouti (capital Djibouti, about 1,066,809 people).

By area, Somalia is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 10.0° N, 49.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Somalia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Mogadishu. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Somalia lies about 1,110 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Somalia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Somali shilling (SOS, Sh).

The official languages are Arabic and Somali, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +252 and websites commonly use the .so internet domain.

In short, Somalia is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Mogadishu. Somalia has a population of about 19,655,000 and covers around 637,657 km² (246,201 sq mi), ranking it 66th in the world by population and 41st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Somalia.

The flag of Somalia features a large five-pointed white star centered on a light blue field.

The flag of Somalia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.