SOMALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Somalia mean? 

• SOMALIA (noun)
  The noun SOMALIA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare

  Familiarity information: SOMALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Somalia"):

capital of Somalia; Mogadiscio; Mogadishu (the capital and largest city of Somalia; a port on the Indian Ocean)

Hargeisa (a city in northwestern Somalia)

Meronyms (members of "Somalia"):

Somali; Somalian (a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia)

Domain member region:

AIAI; al-Itihaad al-Islamiya; al Itihaad al Islamiya; Islamic Unity (a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries)

Holonyms ("Somalia" is a part of...):

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Holonyms ("Somalia" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

Derivation:

Somalian (of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture)

 Context examples 

A country in Eastern Africa, between Somalia and Sudan.

(Ethiopia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia.

(Djibouti, NCI Thesaurus)