Somalia

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Term Paper Title	Somalia
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somalia

[Category]:

Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

somalia

[Text]:

Somalia and my views on war.

Somalia, or Somali Democratic Republic is a third world country located in
Eastern Africa. Somalia is a peninsula surrounded by the Gulf of Aden to the
north, the Indian ocean to the east and south, Kenya to the southwest, Ethiopia
to the west and Djibouti to the northwest. The total area of Somalia is 637,757
square km.(246,200 square miles). It has a long coastline of 3025 km. (1880
miles). The northern part of the country is covered in mountain ranges with
average elevations between 915m. and 2135m. (3000ft. to 7000ft.)

Somalia has a tropical to subtropical climate with the average temperature of
28 degrees but it can go as low as 0 degrees. Monsoon winds bring dry seasons
from September to December. The rainy season in Somalia is from March to May.
The average national rainfall is 280mm (11 inches).

Most people in Somalia are Somalis. Other minorities are Arabs, Indians,
Italians and Pakistanis. The population of Somalia in 1995 was 10,173,000. The
population density in Somalia is 16 people per square kilometer. The largest and
capital city of Somalia is Mogadishu. It has 700,000 people. The other main
cities include Hargeysa, Kismayu and Marka with populations between 60,000 and
70,000.

The economy of Somalia is based primarily on livestock raising. In the south,
some crop farming is important. In the early 1990s, with the Somalian economy in
a state of collapse because of the civil war, the Gross National Product (GNP)
was $36.00 per capita. Livestock raising is the principle occupation. In 1990,
the number of estimated livestock was 6 million goats, 4 million sheep and one
million cattle. The main crops were 101,000 tons of maize, 55,000 tons of
bananas and 50,000 tons of sugarcane. Most wood is cut down for fuel.

The currency of Somalia is the Somali Shilling. One Shilling has one hundred
Centesimi. To equal one US Dollar you would need 3,900 Shillings.

President Mohammed Siad Barre left Somalia in a state of civil war in January
1991. Since then Somalia has had no central governmental authority.

War is an armed conflict between two or more governments or states. War
between different parts or factions in the same nation is referred to as a civil
war. There has alw...

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