SO’s domain name

The .so domain name is the domain name of Somalia, a North African country located in the Horn of Africa. It extends from the equator to the Red Sea. Area: 637,000 square kilometers. Population: 7,489,000 (2001). Capital: Mogadishu. The population is overwhelmingly nomadic or semi-nomadic Somalis. Languages: Somali and Arabic (both official languages). Religion: Islam (state religion). Currency: Somali Shilling. Most of the country is semi-desert. The central and southern areas are flat. The northern region rises to form rugged mountains, and only about 2% of the country's land area is arable. More than half of the land area is pasture. Somalia is a developing mixed economy, mainly based on livestock and agriculture. It is one of the poorest countries in the world. Between the 7th and 10th centuries AD, Arab Muslims and Persian immigrants first opened trading posts along the coast. By the 10th century, Somali nomads occupied the area from the Gulf of Aden to the interior; the pastoral-based Oromo people lived in the south and west. After the British occupied Aden in 1839, Europeans began to explore the area in depth. In the late 19th century, Britain and Italy established protectorates in the area. During World War II, the Italians invaded British Somaliland (1940), and British troops recaptured it a year later; the British continued to rule the entire region until 1950, when Italian Somaliland became a United Nations Trust Territory. . In 1960, the mandate merged with the former British Somaliland to form the independent Republic of Somalia. Since then, the country has suffered political strife and civil unrest, including military dictatorship, civil war, drought, and famine. There was no effective central government in the 1990s. In 1991, a breakaway tribe declared the establishment of the Somaliland Republic, whose territory was equivalent to the former British Somaliland. The peaceful country is not internationally recognized, but its operations are more stable than those in traditional Somalia. In 1992, United Nations peacekeepers stepped in to ensure food supplies. The war continued, and the peacekeeping forces withdrew in 1995. There is still chaos in the country. In 1999, the southern region of the country was severely damaged by floods.