Currency (code):

Somali shilling (SOS)

Currency code:

SOS

Exchange rates:

Somali shillings (SOS) per US dollar - NA (2007), 1,438.3 (2006) official rate; the unofficial black market rate was about 23,000 shillings per dollar as of February 2007 note: the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent country not recognized by any foreign government, issues its own currency, the Somaliland shilling

Communications
Somalia

Telephones - main lines in use:

100,000 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular: