🦒 Africa
Flag of Somalia
🎨 What the flag means
Somalia's flag is light blue with a large white five-pointed star in the middle. The blue was chosen to honour the United Nations, which helped Somalia in the years before independence, and it is also linked with the sky and the seas along the coast. The white star, called the Star of Unity, has five points for five regions where Somali people live.
📊 Quick facts
- 👥 Population
- 18.1 million (2026)
- 🏙️ Capital
- Mogadishu2.1 million people (2015)
- 🗣️ Main language
- SomaliAlso official: Arabic
✨ 3 fun facts
- Somalia has the longest coastline of any country on mainland Africa.
- Somalia has the largest population of camels in the world, and camels have been raised in the region for thousands of years.
- Somalia has been called a "Nation of Poets" because poetry is so loved and so important in Somali culture.