Southwestern Somalia is dominated by the country's only two permanent rivers, the Jubba and the Shabele.
Southwestern Somalia is dominated by the country's only two permanent rivers, the Jubba and the Shabele.
Africa's easternmost country, Somalia has a land area of 637,540 square kilometers, slightly less than that of the state of Texas. Somalia occupies the tip of a region commonly referred to as the Horn of Africa--because of its resemblance on the map to a rhinoceros's horn--that also includes Ethiopia and Djibouti.