What every visitor should know about Somalia:
- Money
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 1 out of 5 (High-risk)
Areas of concern:
- Armed robbery is frequent
- Carjacking
- Banditry on rural roads
- Significant risk of terrorism or politically-motivated attacks
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Tap water
- Very dangerous. Water-borne disease is widespread and purification is unreliable. Drink boiled or bottled water only.
Somalia facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 9,832,017
- Language
- Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
- Ethnicity
- Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000)
Economy
- GDP
- US$600 (per capita)