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somalia

UK/səˈmɑːli.ə/US/səˈmɑli.ə/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,908 of 15,258leans written

Somalia is the country on the Horn of Africa with the continent's longest coastline. Off the coast of Somalia, born in Somalia, return to Somalia.

The coastline runs some three thousand kilometres, and its length and the collapse of central government were what made piracy there a global problem for years. Poetry is the country's great art, and it is oral rather than written.

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Definitions of somalia

  1. 1nounsomaliaCountry on the Horn of Africa with the continent's longest coastline.B1+

    “Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, lies on the coast of the Indian Ocean.”

somalia is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. so

    Soomaaliya

  2. English

    Somalia

  3. English, today

    somalia

Somalia so Soomaaliya, equivalent to Somali + -ia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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