Somalia

The country calling code for Somalia is +252. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Somalia number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Somalia is assigned SO as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and SOM as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Somalia is .so. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Somalia is the Somali shilling, with the ISO 4217 code SOS and the symbol Sh. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Somalia are quoted in SOS. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Somalia is +03:00, currently UTC+03:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Somalia is Mogadishu. Somalia sits in Africa, specifically the Eastern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 10.00000000, 49.00000000. Traffic in Somalia drives on the right. Languages recorded for Somalia: Somali, Arabic.

Somalia shares a land border with 3 countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.