Somalia Governorate

Somalia Governorate Governatorato della Somalia
Governorate of Italian East Africa
Coat of arms
Somalia (green) within Italian East Africa
Capital	Mogadishu
Population
•	ca. 1,150,000
Government
Governor
• 1936–1937	Ruggiero Santini
• 1937–1940	Francesco Caroselli
• 1940–1941	Gustavo Pesenti
• 1941	Carlo De Simone
Historical era	Interwar period World War II
• Created	1 June 1936
• British Somaliland annexed	19 August 1940
• British occupation	25 February 1941
Preceded by Succeeded by Italian Somalia Ethiopian Empire British Somaliland British Military Administration (Somalia) Ethiopian Empire British Somaliland

Somalia Governorate was one of the six governorates of Italian East Africa. It was formed from the previously separate colony of Italian Somalia, enlarged by the Ogaden region of the conquered Ethiopian Empire following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.