🇸🇴 Somalia 17 administrative divisions
17 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 490 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- SO · SOM · 706
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- SOS — Somali shilling
- Calling code
- +252
- Internet domain
- .so
- Divisions
- 17
- Cities and towns
- 490
Divisions
The 17 divisions of Somalia
17 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mudug | SO-MU | 71 | — |
| Bari | SO-BR | 53 | — |
| Hiran | SO-HI | 43 | — |
| Togdheer Region | SO-TO | 40 | 941,832 |
| Nugal | SO-NU | 35 | — |
| Gedo | SO-GE | 30 | — |
| Lower Shebelle | SO-SH | 26 | — |
| Galguduud | SO-GA | 24 | — |
| Awdal Region | SO-AW | 22 | 1,450,000 |
| Sool | SO-SO | 21 | 115,306 |
| Lower Juba | SO-JH | 20 | 643 |
| Maroodi Jeeh | SO-WO | 15 | 1,242,003 |
| Bay | SO-BY | 13 | — |
| Middle Shebelle | SO-SD | 13 | 514,900 |
| Bakool | SO-BK | 6 | — |
| Middle Juba | SO-JD | 6 | — |
| Banaadir | SO-BN | 3 | 1,650,227 |
A further 49 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Somalia
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/SO.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/SO/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.