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    Somalia has a land area of 637,657 km2. The terrain consists of plateaus, plains, and highlands. The climate varies, with hot and dry conditions in the north and hot and humid conditions in the south along the coast. Mogadishu has average highs between 28-32°C while Hargeysa's are over 38°C. There are four seasons: winter from January to March, spring from April to June, summer from July to September, and autumn from October to December. Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa and has over 3,300 km of coastline along the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. The terrain includes plains, plateaus, and mountain ranges

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    Somalia has a land area of 637,657 km2. The terrain consists of plateaus, plains, and highlands. The climate varies, with hot and dry conditions in the north and hot and humid conditions in the south along the coast. Mogadishu has average highs between 28-32°C while Hargeysa's are over 38°C. There are four seasons: winter from January to March, spring from April to June, summer from July to September, and autumn from October to December. Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa and has over 3,300 km of coastline along the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. The terrain includes plains, plateaus, and mountain ranges

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    Somalia has a land area of 637,657 km2. The terrain consists of plateaus, plains, and highlands. The climate varies, with hot and dry conditions in the north and hot and humid conditions in the south along the coast. Mogadishu has average highs between 28-32°C while Hargeysa's are over 38°C. There are four seasons: winter from January to March, spring from April to June, summer from July to September, and autumn from October to December. Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa and has over 3,300 km of coastline along the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. The terrain includes plains, plateaus, and mountain ranges

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    Chapter one Somali Geography

    1. How many km2 are land areas of Somalia?


    The land areas of Somalia are 637,657 km2
    2. What are consisting of the land area of Somalia?
    The land area of Somalia consist of plateau, plains and high lands
    3. Compare the climate of Mogadishu and Hargeysa?
    Mogadishu the average afternoon high range from 280c to 320c
    Hargeysa has an average afternoon high more than 380c
    4. How many seasons are there in Somalia and what are they?
    There are four seasons and they are summer, winter, spring and autumn
    5. At what time was begun spring, summer, autumn and winter?
    Winter began from January to March
    Spring began from April to June
    Summer began from July to September
    Autumn began from October to December
    6. What is climate?
    Climate is the average weather
    7. How many rainfalls receive south west of Somalia?
    500 mm to 600 mm
    8. Define Guban?
    Guban is a scrub and generally drops of plains
    9. What are the important coastlines of Somalia?
    The important coastline of Somalia is trade of Middle East and horn of Africa
    10. What is known as the autumn season?
    The autumn season known as the shortest period of rain
    11. Why Somalia commonly referred to as horn of Africa?
    Because of its resemblance on the map rhinoceros horn
    12. What is the mean daily maximum temperature of Somalia?
    It ranges from 300c to 400c
    13. How many kilometers is the coastline of Somalia?
    The coastline of Somalia is 3,300 kilometers
    14. What is the place that Somali people known Ogo?
    The region of broken mountain terrain shallow plateau valley and usually dry water
    course
    15. Where Juba River enters the Indian Ocean?
    Gob-weyn 30 km north of kismayo
    16. What is the main rainy season in Somalia?
    Spring
    17. Where does Somalia locate on?
    Somalia is the Africa’s most eastern country and occupies the tip of a region commonly
    referred to as the horn of Africa
    18. Tell the time of the two Monsoons of Somalia country?
    October-November and March-May
    19. Which is the harshest dry season in Somalia?
    Jilal
    20. How Somali terrain does looks like?
    Somali terrain looks like: plain, plateau, and highlands
    21. In Somalia, where has the most temperature surpass 45o c?
    In northern Somalia
    22. Where the rugged Kar-kaar Mountain ranges enters Somalia country?
    From the north- west border with Ethiopia
    23. What are the things that enhancing the value of the Haud?
    Are the natural depressions that during periods of rain became temporary lakes and
    ponds?
    24. Where the Shebelle River returns in lower Shebelle region?
    In south-west ward near Bal-cad
    25. In flood season where the Shebelle river fills its bed?
    It fills its bed to a point near jilib and occasionally may even break through to the juba
    river farther south
    26. What are the tree resources in the most arid highlands of the north-east?
    Are Boswellia and commiphora
    27. What is the most important economic sector of Somalia country?
    Agriculture
    28. Where is the place that Somalia has reached fishing commercial agreements with Asia
    and Europe?
    In the northern punt land region
    29. Somalia has untapped reserves of numerous natural resources list them?
    Uranium, iron ore, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, and natural gas

    Write (T) or ( F) in the following:

    30. Somalia terrain looks like, plain, plateau, and highlands (T)
    31. The weather is hot through out of the year except at higher elevations (T )
    32. The hinter land is typically dry and hot (T )
    33. Somalia proximity to the equator because there is no much seasonal variation its
    climate (T)
    34. In 1897, treaty in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian emperor in
    exchange for his help against plundering by Somali clans (T )
    35. The Juba river enters the Indian ocean at Gob-weyn (T )
    36. The Juba river begins with torrential stage and ends with plain stage (F )
    37. Physiographic ally, Somalia is a land of limited contrast (T )
    38. In 1884 treaty, Somalia participated in to five parts (T)
    39. The hottest places in Somalia are, Bosaso and Berbera (T )
    40. Erigavo, is the coldest place in Somalia ( T)

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