Flag: Somalia 🇸🇴
Copy & Meaning

The flag of Somalia — the East African nation that collapsed into civil war in 1991 and spent decades as a failed state, becoming synonymous with piracy, humanitarian crisis, and the challenges of state reconstruction. Al-Shabaab Islamist insurgency continues to destabilize the country.

Somaliland, a de facto independent region, has been more stable. Used for discussions of failed states, maritime piracy, humanitarian crises, Islamist insurgencies, and the complex process of state reconstruction in the Horn of Africa.