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Geography and Environment : Somalia

Includes online maps, links to other map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources.

Created and maintained by the
 African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

Development Gateway Country Overview on Somalia  
(http://old.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/?country_iso=so&search_GO.x=12&search_GO.y=12)
The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas,
and work together to reduce poverty. Includes many helpful links to Somali specific web pages and documents.

Global Gazetteer  (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/SO/)
An online gazetteer searchable by country and then by place. Results give longitude, latitude, and altitude of each location.

Maps.com (formerly Magellan Geographix)  (http://www.maps.com/)
User may view samples of the wide variety of maps available as well as order maps or atlases, by downloading, or on CD-ROM or in hard copy.

Somalia Environmental Protection and Anti-desertification Organisation (SEPADO)  (http://members.tripod.com/%7Esepado/)
“A voluntary non-governmental organization, formed during the summer of 1996 to combat environmental problems of the war-torn Somalia.”

Somalia Geography 2000  (http://www.photius.com/wfb2000/countries/somalia/somalia%5Fgeography.html)

U.S. Library of Congress. Geography and Maps Division  (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world.

UT Library Online-Perry-Castaneda Map Collection-Somalia Maps  (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/somalia.html)

United Nations. Cartographics Section  (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers a detailed map of Somalia.

United States Military Academy. Department of History. Map Library 
(http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/conflicts%2058%20east/conflicts
%20east%20%20pages/wars%20conflicts%20east%20%20map%2057.htm)
This site offers a detailed map of Somalia and of the city of Mogadishu in the 1991-1993 period.

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