Somalia
/səˈmɑːli.ə/US/səˈmɑli.ə/
Somalia proper noun: a country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital and largest city: Mogadishu.
Proper noun
Somalia
- A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital and largest city: Mogadishu.
- Somaliland seceded from Somalia 31 years ago and functions as an independent state with its own government but is still considered internationally as part of Somalia.2022 August 19, Yousef Timacade, “Religious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape law”, in openDemocracy, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022
Somalia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Somalia in Hindi
- country in the Horn of Africa
- सोमालिया somāliyā, सुमाली sumālī
Somalia in Tamil
- country in the Horn of Africa
- சோமாலியா cōmāliyā
Somalia in Urdu
- country in the Horn of Africa
- صومالیہ somāliyā
Somalia in Bengali
- country in the Horn of Africa
- সোমালিয়া śōmaliẏa
More languagesFewer languages
- Somalia in Telugu
- సొమాలియా somāliyā
- Somalia in Kannada
- ಸೊಮಾಲಿಯ somāliya
- Somalia in Punjabi
- ਸੋਮਾਲੀਆ somālīā
- Somalia in Gujarati
- સોમાલિયા somāliyā
- Somalia in Odia
- ସୋମାଲିଆ somāliā
- Somalia in Sinhala
- සෝමාලියාව sōmāliyāwa
- Somalia in Pashto
- سوماليا somālyā
- Somalia in Tagalog
- Somalya
- Somalia in Arabic
- اَلصُّومَال aṣ-ṣomāl
- Somalia in Malay
- Somalia
- Somalia in Indonesian
- Somalia
- Somalia in Persian
- سومالی sumâli
- Somalia in Thai
- โซมาเลีย soo-maa-liia
- Somalia in Vietnamese
- Xô-ma-li
- Somalia in Myanmar
- ဆိုမာလီယာ hcuimaliya
- Dhivehi
- ސޯމާލިއާ sōmāliā
Origin of Somalia
Borrowed from Somali Soomaaliya, equivalent to Somali + -ia.
Words formed from Somalia
Phrases with Somalia
Words that rhyme with Somalia
Questions about Somalia
- What does Somalia mean?
- Somalia means a country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital and largest city: Mogadishu.
- What is Somalia in Hindi?
- Somalia in Hindi is सोमालिया (somāliyā), सुमाली (sumālī). See Somalia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Somalia?
- Somalia is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Somalia?
- Somalia is pronounced /səˈmɑːli.ə/ (UK).
Words near Somalia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Somalia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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