Galleria Afrique A girl potter at work outside her home. Somalia is located in the eastern Horn of Africa, just below Arabia with an Indian Ocean Coastline. Its population is 2,600,00, a tall dark, proud people living in an area of 150,000 sqare miles, speaking Somali and united by the Islamic religion. The country has a weak economy with scanty and unreliable raifall.
Principal occupations are livestock raising and agriculture.
Its products include bananas, incense, sugar an hids. Its mineral wealth, including uranium, is largely underdeveloped. Somalia is now engaged in a modernization bid with the emphasis on transportation, communications, agriculture and industry.