Somalia

Summary Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia Population: 9,118,773 note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2007 est.) Capital: name: Mogadishu geographic coordinates: 2 04 N, 45 22 E time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) GDP per capita: $600 (2006 est.)

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