Somalia (ل aṣ-Ṣūmāl) is on the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the north-west, and Kenya on its south-west. This is a country with a rich but turbulent history. Civil war, clannist coups, border disputes and clannist autonomous regions are common here. Things started to improve after the Ethiopian Army withdrew in 2007 after defeating an Islamist government, and since then violence has died down. Somalia is currently governed by a government, comprising the Internationally recognized Somali Federal Government (FGS), although radical Islamist factions hold minor parts of the country. The two autonomous regions at the outermost regions formerly part of the British empire i.e., British Jubaland headed by Kismayo city in the south, and Somali Coast protectorate in the north headed by Hargeisa city, are politically estranged from Somalia's central government in Mogadishu.
The country has the longest coastline on the African continent, and as such, has many beaches.