SO — Somalia

Somalia is a Horn of Africa country with the longest coastline on mainland Africa, stretching along the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. Mogadishu, the capital, is the largest city and main port. Somalia has a strong oral literary tradition and the Somali language was only standardized with a Latin-based orthography in 1972. The Somali Shilling (SOS) is the national currency, though US dollars are widely used in practice. For developers, the SO country code and .so domain are notable — the .so ccTLD has been marketed internationally and is used by many non-Somali websites. The so-SO locale handles the Somali language, and +252 covers both Somalia and Somaliland (which uses the same country code despite functioning independently). The Somali community has a large global diaspora, making so-SO locale support important for applications serving Somali speakers in countries like the US, UK, and Scandinavia. Mobile money is widely used in Somalia, particularly via Hormuud Telecom.