Somalia 2
Somalia is in the current news. Today (Feb 23) twenty-three ships from seven nations are preparing to evacuate U.N. peace keeping troops from Somalia. This report gives a brief overview of Somalia. Somalia's proper name is the Somali Democratic Republic, which is a state in northeast Africa stretching from the Equator to the Red Sea. Somalia occupies most of the Horn of Africa. Somalia is surrounded on the north by Gulf of Aden, in the east by the Indian Ocean, in the west by Kenya and Ethiopia, and in the northwest, by the French administered territory of the Afars and Issas, formerly known as French Somaliland. Somalia's population is 2,730,000 and the area is 246,200 square miles. The capital and largest city is Mogadishu, and it's population is 172,677. The colors of the flag is blue with a white star in the middle. The major languages are Somali, Arabic, Italian, and English, and the major religions are Islam and Roman Catholic. This country is covered in flat low plateau, with some mountains, the largest is Surud Ad which is 7,900 ft tall. The are two plateaus south of the mountains they are the Haud and the Guban. The Haud plateau is flat land withsoil containing gypsum. It has slightly more rainfall
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Approximate Word count = 1035
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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