Sub-Saharan Africa · SOWhere is Somalia?
Somalia is grouped in the World Bank's Sub-Saharan Africa region. Its listed capital is Mogadishu. The profile's representative coordinates are 2.08° N, 45.33° E; they are orientation points, not geometric centroids or boundary claims.
How large is Somalia?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For Somalia, that mapped area is approximately 473,623 square kilometres, ranking #53 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
Somalia had a World Bank population value of 19,654,739 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 41.5 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
For wider context, the latest imported World Bank GDP value is $13B for 2025, ranking #143 among 185 profiles with data. This current-dollar measure should not be read as a cost-of-living or household-income comparison.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 59 years for 2024, ranking #210 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to Somalia under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
Turkmenistan
Cameroon
Papua New Guinea