Somalia at a glance: its flag, its capital Mogadishu, its population and where it sits on the world map. Plus a way to test yourself afterwards.
Adopted on 12 October 1954, under United Nations trusteeship, Somalia’s flag came from a design improvised overnight by the scholar Mohammed Awale Liban to break a deadlock between rival parties.
The sky blue draws on the flag of the UN; each of the five points on the white star is said to stand for a territory with a Somali population, of which only two went on to form the Somali Republic in 1960.
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Data: Wikidata (CC0). Flags and map: Geo Nerd.
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