The following information is NOT printed on this postcard: Somalia, officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under communist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

Somalia has a population of around 9,832,017 inhabitants, about 85% of whom are ethnic Somalis. Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many of the best educated Somalis left for the Middle East, Europe and North America.