Djibouti

Djibouti is in the on the Gulf of Aden. The country can be divided into three regions; the coastal plain and volcanic plateaus in the central and southern parts of the country and the mountain ranges in the north.
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is the capital city of the Republic of . It is located in the coastal Region on the . has a population of around 780,000 inhabitants, which counts for 73% of the country's population.

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is a coral island in the Gulf of Tadjoura, just off the shores of Djibouti. Its total length is no more than 3 km, and it is surrounded by Maskali Island, a group of tiny islands and a coral reef.

Djibouti

  • Type: Country with 959,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in Africa
  • Also known as: “Afars and Issas”, “dj”, “Gabuuti”, “Jabuuti”, “Jībūtī”, “Jumhūrīyat Jībūtī”, and “Republic of Djibouti”
  • Historically known as: “Côte Française des Somalis”, “French Somali Coast”, “French Territory of Afars and Issas”, “Somalie Française”, “Territoire de la Côte Française des Somalis”, “Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas”, and “Territory of French Somaliland”
  • Languages: French, Arabic, Somali, and Afar
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
11.695° or 11° 41′ 42″ north
Longitude of center
42.704° or 42° 42′ 14″ east
Population
959,000
Area
23,000 km² (8,880 miles²)
Elevation
986 metres (3,235 feet)
Capital
Djibouti
Currency
Franc (DJF)
Phone code
.dj
Internet domain
253
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6684034483
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
223816
Wiki­data ID
Q977
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Djibouti” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Џибути”
  • Abkhazian: “Џьибути”
  • Achinese: “Djibouti”
  • Adyghe: “Джибути”
  • Afar: “Yabuuti”
  • Afrikaans: “Djiboeti”
  • Akan: “Gyibuti”
  • Albanian: “Xhibuti”
  • Amharic: “ጂቡቲ”
  • Amharic: “ጅቡቲ”
  • Angika: “जिबूटी”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية جيبوتي”
  • Arabic: “جيبوتي”
  • Aragonese: “Chibuti”
  • Armenian: “Ջիբութի”
  • Arpitan: “Dj·iboti”
  • Assamese: “জিবুটি”
  • Asturian: “Xibuti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cibuti”
  • Balinese: “Djibouti”
  • Bambara: “Jibuti”
  • Banjar: “Djibouti”
  • Bashkir: “Джибути”
  • Basque: “Djibuti”
  • Bavarian: “Dschibuti”
  • Belarusian: “Джыбуці”
  • Bengali: “জিবুতি”
  • Betawi: “Jibuti”
  • Bhojpuri: “जिबूती”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज़िबूती”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডিজিবোটি”
  • Bislama: “Jibuti”
  • Bosnian: “Džibuti”
  • Breton: “Djibouti”
  • Bulgarian: “Джибути”
  • Burmese: “ဂျီဘူတီ”
  • Burmese: “ဂျီဘူတီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Djibouti”
  • Catalan: “República de Djibouti”
  • Cebuano: “Djibouti”
  • Cebuano: “Yibuti”
  • Central Bikol: “Dibouti”
  • Central Kurdish: “جیبووتی”
  • Chavacano: “Djibouti”
  • Chechen: “Джибути”
  • Cherokee: “ᏥᏊᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Djibouti”
  • Chinese: “吉布地”
  • Chinese: “吉布地共和國”
  • Chinese: “吉布提 / 吉布地”
  • Chinese: “吉布提”
  • Chinese: “吉布提共和国”
  • Chinese: “吉布提共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Джибути”
  • Cornish: “Jibouti”
  • Corsican: “Díbuti”
  • Corsican: “Gibuti”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cibuti”
  • Croatian: “Džibuti”
  • Czech: “Džibuti”
  • Czech: “Džibutsko”
  • Dagbani: “Djibouti”
  • Danish: “Djibouti”
  • Dhivehi: “ޖިބުތީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cibuti”
  • Dinka: “Djibouti”
  • Dotyali: “जिबुटी”
  • Dutch: “Djibouti”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Djibouti”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇི་བྷུ་ཊི།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇི་བྷུ་ཊི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Джибути”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيبوتى”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝibutio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Ĝibutio”
  • Estonian: “Djibouti Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Djibouti”
  • Ewe: “Djibouti”
  • Ewe: “Dzibuti nutome”
  • Ewe: “Dzibuti”
  • Extremaduran: “Yibuti”
  • Farefare: “Djibouti”
  • Faroese: “Djibuti”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Djibouti”
  • Finnish: “Djibouti”
  • Finnish: “Djiboutin tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Jibutitò”
  • French: “Djibouti”
  • French: “la République de Djibouti”
  • French: “République de Djibouti”
  • Fulah: “Jibutii”
  • Fulah: “Jibuuti”
  • Ga: “Djibouti”
  • Gagauz: “Cibuti”
  • Galician: “Djibuti”
  • Galician: “Xibuti”
  • Ganda: “Djibouti”
  • Ganda: “Jjibuti”
  • Georgian: “ჯიბუტი”
  • German: “Dschibuti”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Djibouti”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Gabuuti”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Jabuuti”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Djibouti”
  • Gilaki: “جيبۊتي”
  • Goan Konkani: “जिबूती”
  • Greek: “Τζιμπουτί”
  • Guarani: “Jimbúti”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Djibouti”
  • Gujarati: “જિબોટી”
  • Gujarati: “જીબૌટી”
  • Haitian: “Djibouti”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Djibouti”
  • Hausa: “Jibuti”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יבוטי”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳יבוטי”
  • Hebrew: “גיבוטי”
  • Hindi: “जिबूती”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsibuti Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsibuti”
  • Icelandic: “Djibútí”
  • Icelandic: “Djíbútí”
  • Ido: “Djibuti”
  • Igbo: “Djibouti”
  • Iloko: “Djibouti”
  • Inari Sami: “Djibouti täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Djibouti”
  • Indonesian: “Djibouti”
  • Indonesian: “Jibuti”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Jibuti”
  • Interlingua: “Djibouti”
  • Interlingua: “Djibuti”
  • Interlingua: “Republica de Djibuti”
  • Interlingue: “Djibouti”
  • Irish: “Diobúití”
  • Irish: “Djibouti”
  • Italian: “Gibuti”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Gibuti”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Jibuuti”
  • Japanese: “ジブチ”
  • Japanese: “ジブチ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Djibouti”
  • Javanese: “Jibuti”
  • Jju: “Jibuti”
  • Kabiyè: “Cibuuti”
  • Kabyle: “Jibuti”
  • Kalaallisut: “Djibouti”
  • Kalmyk: “Җибудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಬೂಟಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Djibuti”
  • Karekare: “Jibuti”
  • Kashmiri: “جِبوٗتی”
  • Kazakh: “Джибути”
  • Khmer: “ជីបូទី”
  • Khmer: “ជីបូ៊ទី”
  • Khmer: “ជីប៊ូទី”
  • Kikuyu: “Djibouti”
  • Kikuyu: “Jibuti”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Jibuti”
  • Kirghiz: “Джибути”
  • Kirghiz: “Жибути”
  • Komering: “Djibouti”
  • Kongo: “Djibuti”
  • Korean: “지부티”
  • Kotava: “Jibutia”
  • Kurdish: “Cîbûtî”
  • Kurdish: “جیبووتی”
  • Ladin: “Gibuti”
  • Ladino: “Djibuti”
  • Lao: “ຈິບູຕິ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຈິບູຕີ”
  • Latin: “Gibutum”
  • Latvian: “Džibuti”
  • Latvian: “Džibutija”
  • Ligurian: “Gibuti”
  • Limburgan: “Djiboeti”
  • Limburgan: “Djibouti”
  • Lingala: “Djibuti”
  • Lingala: “Dzibuti”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Djibuti”
  • Literary Chinese: “吉布地”
  • Literary Chinese: “吉布提”
  • Lithuanian: “Džibutis”
  • Livvi: “Džibuti”
  • Lombard: “Djibouti”
  • Lombard: “Gibuti”
  • Low German: “Djibuti”
  • Low German: “Dschibuti”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Džibuti”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Djibuti”
  • Lule Sami: “Djibåvtti”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dschibuti”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gibouti”
  • Macedonian: “Џибути”
  • Madurese: “Djibouti”
  • Maithili: “जिबूती”
  • Malagasy: “Djiboti”
  • Malagasy: “Jibotia”
  • Malagasy: “Jibotỳ”
  • Malay: “Djibouti”
  • Malay: “Jibouti”
  • Malayalam: “ജിബൂട്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “ജിബൂത്തി”
  • Maltese: “Dġibuwti”
  • Maltese: “Djibouti”
  • Maltese: “Ġibuti”
  • Maltese: “il-Djibouti”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Djibouti”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗ꯭ꯖꯤꯕꯧꯇꯤ”
  • Manx: “DJ”
  • Manx: “DJI”
  • Manx: “Djibouti”
  • Maori: “Tipūti”
  • Marathi: “जिबूती”
  • Marathi: “जिबौटी”
  • Mazanderani: “جیبوتی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Djibouti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Djibouti”
  • Minangkabau: “Djibouti”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯიბუტი”
  • Mirandese: “Djibuti”
  • Moksha: “Джибути”
  • Mongolian: “Джибути”
  • Mongolian: “Жибути”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دجيبوتي”
  • Nauru: “Djibuti”
  • Navajo: “Bilį́į́łání Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Nepali: “जिबुटी”
  • Nepali: “जिबुती”
  • Nepali: “डिजिबुटी”
  • Newari: “जिबुटी”
  • North Ndebele: “Djibouti”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dschibuuti”
  • Northern Luri: “جیبوتی”
  • Northern Sami: “Djibouti dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Djibouti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Djibouti”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Djibouti”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Djibouti”
  • Norwegian: “Djibouti”
  • Novial: “Djibuti”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Djibouti”
  • Obolo: “Dijibuti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jiboti”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cibuti”
  • Oriya: “ଜିବୋଟି”
  • Oriya: “ଡିଜିବୋଇଟି”
  • Oromo: “Jibuutii”
  • Ossetian: “Джибути”
  • Pali: “जिबूटी”
  • Pampanga: “Djibouti”
  • Pampanga: “Yibúti”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਬੂਤੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੀਬੂਤੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Djibouti”
  • Pedi: “Djibouti”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Tschibuti”
  • Persian: “جیبوتی”
  • Piemontese: “Djibouti”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Jibuuti”
  • Polish: “Dżibuti”
  • Portuguese: “Djibouti”
  • Portuguese: “Djibuti”
  • Portuguese: “Jibuti”
  • Portuguese: “Republica do Djibouti”
  • Portuguese: “República do Djibouti”
  • Portuguese: “Republica do Jibuti”
  • Portuguese: “República do Jibuti”
  • Pushto: “جبوتي”
  • Pushto: “جيبوتي”
  • Pushto: “جېبوتي”
  • Quechua: “Yibuti”
  • Quechua: “Yiwuti”
  • Rakhine: “ဂျီဘူတီ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Djibouti”
  • Romansh: “Dschibuti”
  • Rundi: “Jibuti”
  • Russia Buriat: “Джибути”
  • Russian: “Джибути”
  • Russian: “Республика Джибути”
  • Rusyn: “Джібуті”
  • Rusyn: “Джібутьско”
  • Samoan: “Djibouti”
  • Samogitian: “Džėbotis”
  • Sango: “Dibutùii”
  • Sanskrit: “जिबूटी”
  • Sardinian: “Gibuti”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Dschibuti”
  • Scots: “Djibouti”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Diobùtaidh”
  • Serbian: “Džibuti”
  • Serbian: “Џибути”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džibuti”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵျီႇပူးတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Djibouti”
  • Shona: “Jibhuti”
  • Sicilian: “Gibbuti”
  • Silesian: “Dżibuti”
  • Sindhi: “جبوتي”
  • Sindhi: “جيبوتي”
  • Sindhi: “ڊجبيوتي”
  • Sinhala: “ජිබුටි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Djiboout tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Djibouti”
  • Slovak: “Džibuti”
  • Slovak: “Džibutská republika”
  • Slovak: “Džibutsko”
  • Slovenian: “Džibuti”
  • Somali: “Jabuuti”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جیبوتی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Djibouti”
  • Spanish: “Djibouti”
  • Spanish: “Djibuti”
  • Spanish: “República de Yibuti”
  • Spanish: “Yibuti”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵊⵉⴱⵓⵜⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Djibouti”
  • Swahili: “Jibuti”
  • Swati: “IJibhuthi”
  • Swedish: “Djibouti”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Djibouti”
  • Swiss German: “Dschibuti”
  • Sylheti: “ꠎꠤꠛꠥꠔꠤ”
  • Tachelhit: “Djibuti”
  • Tagalog: “Djibouti”
  • Tagalog: “Hiboti”
  • Tajik: “Ҷибути”
  • Tajik: “Ҷибутӣ”
  • Talysh: “Cibuti”
  • Talysh: “Čibuti”
  • Tamil: “சிபூட்டி”
  • Tamil: “சீபூத்தீ”
  • Tamil: “ஜிபௌட்டி”
  • Tatar: “Җибути”
  • Tatar: “Җибүти”
  • Telugu: “జిబౌటి”
  • Thai: “จิบูตี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศจิบูตี”
  • Tibetan: “ཇི་བའོ་ཊི།”
  • Tibetan: “ཛི་བུ་ཏི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጂቡቲ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Siputi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dschibuti”
  • Tsonga: “Djibouti”
  • Tumbuka: “Djibouti”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جيبوتي”
  • Turkish: “Cibuti”
  • Turkmen: “Jibuti”
  • Tyap: “Ji̱buti”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Ji̱buti”
  • Udmurt: “Джибути”
  • Uighur: “جىبۇتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Джибуті”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Джибуті”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dźibuti”
  • Urdu: “جبوتی”
  • Uzbek: “Jibuti”
  • Venetian: “Djibouti”
  • Venetian: “Jibuti”
  • Venetian: “Zibuti”
  • Veps: “Džibuti”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Djibouti”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Djibouti”
  • Vietnamese: “Djibouti”
  • Vietnamese: “Gi-bu-ti”
  • Vlax Romani: “Jibuti”
  • Volapük: “Cibutän”
  • Võro: “Djibouti”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Djibouti”
  • Welsh: “Djibouti”
  • Welsh: “Jibwti”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճիպութի”
  • Western Frisian: “Djibouti”
  • Western Frisian: “Dzjibûty”
  • Western Mari: “Джибути”
  • Western Panjabi: “جبوتی”
  • Wolof: “Jibuti”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉布提”
  • Yakut: “Дьибути”
  • Yiddish: “דזשיבוטי”
  • Yoruba: “Díbọ́ótì”
  • Yoruba: “Djìbútì”
  • Yue Chinese: “吉布提”
  • Zeeuws: “Djibouti”
  • Zhuang: “Djibouti”
  • Zulu: “i-Djibouti”
  • Zulu: “IJibhuthi”
  • Zulu: “IJibuthi”
  • “DJ”
  • “DJI”
  • “Djibouti”
  • “Džėbotis”
  • “Gibouti”
  • “ma Sipusi”
  • “Q977”
  • “Yibuti”
  • “जिबूती”

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