🇸🇴 Somalia 17 administrative divisions

17 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 490 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: SO · SOM · 706
Capital: Mogadishu
Continent: Africa
Currency: SOS, Somali shilling
Calling code: +252
Internet domain: .so
Divisions: 17
Cities and towns: 490

Divisions

The 17 divisions of Somalia

17 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Awdal Region	SO-AW	22	1,450,000
Bakool	SO-BK	6	–
Banaadir	SO-BN	3	1,650,227
Bari	SO-BR	53	–
Bay	SO-BY	13	–
Galguduud	SO-GA	24	–
Gedo	SO-GE	30	–
Hiran	SO-HI	43	–
Lower Juba	SO-JH	20	643
Lower Shebelle	SO-SH	26	–
Maroodi Jeeh	SO-WO	15	1,242,003
Middle Juba	SO-JD	6	–
Middle Shebelle	SO-SD	13	514,900
Mudug	SO-MU	71	–
Nugal	SO-NU	35	–
Sool	SO-SO	21	115,306
Togdheer Region	SO-TO	40	941,832

A further 49 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Somalia
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/SO.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/SO/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.