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It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Somali Sea and Guardafui Channel to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. With a land area of 637,657 square kilometers, Somalia's terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. [3] Its coastline is more than 3,333 kilometers in length, the longest of ...
The ecoregion forms a strip along Somalia's low-lying coastal plain facing the Indian Ocean. The ecoregion extends for approximately 800 km along the coast, from about 2º and 5º N latitude. The dunes reach 10 to 15 miles inland from the coast. They are composed of white or orange sand, and are up to 60 meters high.
Somalia – country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on the mainland, [1] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and ...
The Haud (also Hawd) (Somali: Hawd, Arabic: هَوْد), formerly known as the Hawd Reserve Area, is a plateau situated in the Horn of Africa consisting of thorn-bush and grasslands. [1] The region includes the northern part of the Somalia as well as the northern and eastern parts of the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
The Somali montane xeric shrublands is a desert and xeric scrubland ecoregion in Somalia. The ecoregion lies in the rugged Karkaar Mountains , which run parallel and close to Somalia's northern coast on the Gulf of Aden , and follows coast from Cape Guardafui south to Eyl on the Arabian Sea .
Pages in category "Geography of Somalia" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Hobyo grasslands and shrublands occupy a narrow strip of coastal dunes along Somalia's central Indian Ocean coast. To the northeast, the Somali montane xeric woodlands occupy the Ogo Mountains along Somaliland's northern coast, and the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands occupy the lowlands along the Red Sea.
This is a list of protected areas of Somalia. Protected areas include national parks and wildlife reserves . [ 1 ] The boundaries and areas of Somalia's protected areas are not reported, and there has been little formal protection or management of most areas since the collapse of Somalia's central government in 1991.