Somalia is located in East Africa, on the Horn of Africa at the easternmost tip of the African continent.

Regional location

• It lies on the Horn of Africa, a peninsula that juts out into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean in eastern Africa.

• Most of Somalia is just north of the Equator, with a small part extending slightly south of it.

Neighbors and seas

• Somalia is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the west, and Kenya to the southwest.

• It has coastline along the Gulf of Aden to the north and the Indian Ocean (including the Somali Sea/Guardafui Channel) to the east.