What the records say
- When
- 1960
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Somalia
- Coordinates
- 3.57° N, 45.19° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 1330000
- Area km2
- 461541
- Losing
- Italy
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Somalia
Country in East Africa
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. Stretching across the Horn of Africa, it borders Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation