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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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A tsunami or tidal wave as they are popularly known, is a seismic sea wave originating from any one of several submarine geological phenomena, such as volcanic explosions or earthquakes. They travel in the open ocean at speeds up to 640 kmh. On Boxing Day 2004, (the 26th December 2004) an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale occurred under the sea off the coast of Sumatra. The resultant tsunami or tidal waves killed over 125,000 people throughout the entire Indian Ocean area extending from Burma, Indonesia and Malaysia in the east, west to Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and the Seychelles.
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The Somali Wild Ass (Equus asinus somalicus) is the only surviving subspecies of the African Wild Ass. The Somali Wild Ass stands about 130 centimetres tall, has a large head in proportion to its body, and is a uniform light grey in colour. The Somali Wild Ass resembles the domestic donkey (Equus asinus), but is not actually a donkey. Rather, domestic donkeys are descended from the now extinct Nubian Wild Ass which was very similar to the Somali Wild Ass. The
Somali Wild Ass is now on the verge of extinction and is one of the rarest animals left in the world, with just a few hundred remaining in Ethiopia and Somalia.
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The Zebra (Equus) is a genus of black (or dark brown) and white vertically striped wild horses, or horse-like mammals, found in Africa. There are currently three surviving species of Zebra: The Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) found in northern Kenya and Somalia; The Mountain Zebra found in south-west Africa which has two sub-species: The Cape Mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) and the Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae); the Common Zebra, also known as the Plains Zebra or Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchelli or Equus quagga) found in east and South Africa. A fourth species, the quagga became extinct during the 1870's. Zebras are social animals living in herds and mixing freely with other grazing animals on the open savanahs of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, this interaction between animals is believed to be for mutual defence against predators. The Zebra have acute hearing, gnu which often mix with them have a good sense of smell and Ostrich which are also often to be found in the area have very good vision.
When a Zebra is born its stripes are usually more brown than black, and become darker with age.
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The PPSh-41 was a Soviet blowback operated sub-machine-gun developed during the Second World War and introduced in 1941, whereupon it became one of the main weapons of the Soviet Infantry. It took a 7.62 mm round from a 71-round drum or 35-round box. It had a cyclic rate of 900 rounds-per-minute and a muzzle velocity of 489 meters-per-second. Although production stopped in 1945, PPSh-41 sub-machine-guns were seen in action in 1977 in Beirut, Lebanon and also in Somalia and Ethiopia.
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SO is an abbreviation for Somalia
SO is an abbreviation for Seller's Option
SO is an abbreviation for Significant Other
SO is an abbreviation for Space Opera
SO is an abbreviation for Strike Out
SO is an abbreviation for Scheduling Operator
SO is an abbreviation for Shift Out
SO is an abbreviation for Spurious Outputs
SO is an abbreviation for Sulphur Oxide
Berbera is a port on the coast of Somalia.
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The Gulf of Aden is a stretch of water between the Red Sea to the west, Yemen to the north, Somalia to the south and the Arabian Sea to the east.
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Hargeisa is a city in north-west Somalia. It was formerly the capital of British Somaliland.
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The Horn of Africa is the peninsula of north-east Africa separating the Gulf of Aden from the main part of the Indian Ocean. It is also called the Somali Peninsula and comprises Somalia and parts of Ethiopia.
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