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THE LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT OF SOMALIA
Somalia is located 12 degrees North and 139 degrees South. It is boundary length is 3025 kilometers. It has a capital city by the name Mogadishu. The economy of Somali is exhausted by violence. It is the strongest country in terms of war and the uncontrollable pirates.

It’s located on the East coast of Africa and the North of the equator. Somalia is a very geographically central location. It’s easy to reach Somalia .The threat and damage done to Somali will not receive the attention. Somalia is located in the horn of Africa ,adjacent to the Arabian Peninsula . Somali is geographically located in a very advantageous region bordering the Indian Ocean and the Red sea The country’s land area is estimated to be 637660 kilometers. It shares borders with Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Currently the population of people in Somalia is about 7million.Somalia is a unique country, as they do not have any language shared internationally but rather they speak their native languages maxaad, Tiri and Arabic. Somalia was a British protectorate in late the 19th century the southern part was an Italian colony until 1960. In that year it was unified with Northern to become an independent republic of Somalia. Somalia has suffered from civil wars between the rival clans. Unlike most African nations it has one ethnic group divided into various clans. However, Somalis are united by a common language and reliance in rearing animals.

They also share Islamic heritage believe in descended from a common ancestor even those in Kenya and Ethiopia are also considered as to be part o f Somali nation. The interior Somaliland consists of a series of mountains , ranges in the North and rugged plateau in the South. The maxaad language is spoken mostly by the Somali people though...