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Somalia
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Capital: Mogadishu
Total Area: 246,200.74 sq mi,637,657.00 sq km,(slightly smaller than Texas)
Population: 7,488,773 (July 2001 est.),note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare
Estimated Population in 2050: 25,499,605
Languages: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
Literacy: 24.0% total, 36.0% male, 14% female (1990 est.)
Religions: Sunni Muslim
Life Expectancy: 44.99 male, 48.25 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: parliamentary
Currency: 1 Somali shilling (So. Sh.) = 100 cents
GDP (per capita): $600 (2000 est.)
Industry: a few small industries, including sugar refining, textiles, petroleum refining (mostly shut down), wireless communication
Agriculture: cattle, sheep, goats; bananas, sorghum, corn, sugarcane, mangoes, sesame seeds, beans; fish
Arable Land: 2%
Natural Resources: uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt
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