Somalia has the longest coastline in mainland Africa. Modern Somalia has struggled with civil war since 1991, though a federal government has slowly rebuilt institutions.
Somali, Arabic
These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 29 people per km² rank 154 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.227 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Africa | 1.2% of its people, 2.1% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 246,201 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Afghanistan (652,230 km²) |
| Closest in population | Guatemala (18,124,838 people) |
Somalia is the only country in our list that uses SOS.