Somalia

Information about Somalia

Soomaaliya
الصومال
Somalia
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Flag of Somalia
FlagCoat of arms
Anthem
Soomaaliyeey Toosoow
Somalia, Wake Up
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Location of Somalia
Capital
(and largest city)
Mogadishu
202′N, 4521′E]
Official languagesSomali1
DemonymSomali
GovernmentTransitional Federal Government
 - PresidentAbdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
 - Prime MinisterAli Mohammed Ghedi
Independencefrom the UK and Italy 
 - DateJuly 1 1960 
 - Water (%)1.6
Population
 - 2007 estimate9,118,773² (59th)
GDP (PPP)2006 estimate
 - Total$5.26 billion  (157th)
 - Per capita$600 (148th)
HDI (2007)N/A (low) (Not Ranked)
CurrencySomali shilling (SOS)
Time zoneEAT (UTC+3)
 - Summer (DST)not observed (UTC+3)
Internet TLD.so (currently non-operational)
Calling code+252
1[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html#People CIA Factbook]
tropical forests]] by facilitating the production of charcoal with ever present, recurring, but damaging droughts. Somali environmentalist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Fatima Jibrell, became the first Somali to step in and do a much-needed effort to save the rest of the environment through local initiatives that organised local communities to protect the rural and coastal habitat. Jibrell trained a team of young people to organise awareness campaigns about the irreversible damage of unrestricted charcoal production. Jibrell also joined the Buran rural institute that formed and organised the Camel Caravan program in which young people loaded tents and equipment on camels to walk for three weeks through a nomadic locale and educate the people about the careful use of fragile resources, health care, livestock management and peace. She has consistently fought against the burning of charcoal, logging and other man-induced environmental degradation. Her efforts have born fruits to the local communities across Somalia and international recognition when she won the prestigious Environmental Goldman award from San Francisco, California
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A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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Somalia, Wake Up or Soomaaliyeey toosoo is the national anthem of Somalia and was adopted by the Transitional Federal Government in 2000. It was chosen to replace the then wordless anthem, written by Giuseppe Blanc, which had been in use since 1960.
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Demographic data from the CIA World Factbook

Population

8,863,338

Age structure

0-14 years: 44.4% (male 1,973,294; female 1,961,083)
15-64 years: 53% (male 2,355,861; female 2,342,988)
65 years and over: 2.
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Mogadishu
مقديش?

Mogadishu Skyline
Nickname: Xamar
Mogadishu's location in Somalia
Coordinates:
Country Somalia
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An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. It is typically the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other
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Somalia

This article is part of the series:
Culture of Somalia

  • Islam in Somalia
  • Somali language
  • History of Somalia
  • Cinema of Somalia
  • Music of Somalia
  • Somali literature
  • Cuisine of Somalia
  • Economy of Somalia

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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people).
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Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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Somalia

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Somalia


  • Transitional Federal Charter

  • Executive
  • Transitional Federal Government

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Somalia

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Somalia


  • Transitional Federal Charter

  • Executive
  • Transitional Federal Government

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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (Somali: Cabdullaahi Yuusuf Axmed) (b. December 15 1934) is a veteran Somali politician, and the current transitional President of Somalia.
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Somalia

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Somalia


  • Transitional Federal Charter

  • Executive
  • Transitional Federal Government

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Ali Mohammed Ghedi or Mohammed Ali Ghedi (Somali: Maxamed Cali Geeddi) (born 1951) is the Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia.
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.

The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation,
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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July 1 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining. The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year.
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1957 1958 1959 - 1960 - 1961 1962 1963

Year 1960 (MCMLX
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45 % (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45.
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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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list of countries ordered according to population. The list includes and ranks sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories. Figures are based on the most recent estimate or projection by the national census authority where available and generally rounded off.
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gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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The purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. It is the method of using the long-run equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize the currencies' purchasing power.
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There are three lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP) (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year). The GDP dollar estimates given on this page are derived from Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) calculations.
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Per capita is a Latin phrase meaning for each head.

It is usually used in the field of statistics to indicate the average per person for any given concern, e.g. income, crime rate.
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This article includes two lists of countries of the world[1] sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for
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Human Development Index (HDI) is the measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare.
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