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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in . Located on the easternmost part of the mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world.
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  • Type: Peninsula with 115,000,000 residents
  • Description: land projection in East Africa in the Punt peninsula
  • Also known as: “HOA”, “Northeast Africa”, “Punt Peninsula”, “Somali Peninsula”, and “the Horn of Africa”

Horn of Africa

Latitude of center
9.8333° or 9° 50′ north
Longitude of center
49.1667° or 49° 10′ east
Population
115,000,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4869293622
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Wiki­data ID
Q40556
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Satellite Map

Discover Horn of Africa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Horn of Africa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Lungkè Afrika”
  • Afrikaans: “Horing van Afrika”
  • Albanian: “Briri i Afrikës”
  • Amharic: “የአፍሪካ ቀንድ”
  • Arabic: “القرن الأفريقي”
  • Arabic: “القرن الإفريقي”
  • Arabic: “القرن الافريقى”
  • Arabic: “القرن الافريقي”
  • Arabic: “رأس أفريقيا”
  • Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الصومالية”
  • Arabic: “شمال شرق أفريقيا”
  • Arabic: “قرن أفريقي”
  • Arabic: “قرن إفريقي”
  • Armenian: “Աֆրիկյան եղջյուր”
  • Armenian: “Աֆրիկյան պոզ”
  • Armenian: “Սոմալի”
  • Arpitan: “Côrna d’Africa”
  • Arpitan: “Côrna de l’Africa”
  • Asturian: “Cuernu d’África”
  • Asturian: “rexón d’África”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afrika buynuzu”
  • Bashkir: “Сомали (ярымутрау)”
  • Bashkir: “Сомали”
  • Basque: “Afrikako Adar”
  • Basque: “Afrikako Adarra”
  • Belarusian: “Афрыканскі рог”
  • Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Самалі”
  • Belarusian: “Самалі”
  • Belarusian: “Самалійскі паўвостраў”
  • Bengali: “আফ্রিকার শৃঙ্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Afrički rog”
  • Bosnian: “Rog Afrike”
  • Bosnian: “Sjeveroistočna Afrika”
  • Breton: “Korn Afrika”
  • Bulgarian: “Африкански рог”
  • Bulgarian: “Африканския рог”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомали”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомалийски полуостров”
  • Bulgarian: “Сомалия”
  • Burmese: “အာဖရိက ဦးချိုဒေသ”
  • Burmese: “အာဖရိက၏ ဦးချို”
  • Catalan: “Àfrica del nord-est”
  • Catalan: “Banya d’Àfrica”
  • Catalan: “Corn d’Àfrica”
  • Central Bikol: “Sungay kan Aprika”
  • Central Kurdish: “قۆچی ئەفریقا”
  • Chinese: “Hui-chiu-kak”
  • Chinese: “哈丰半岛”
  • Chinese: “東北非”
  • Chinese: “索馬利亞半島”
  • Chinese: “索马里半岛”
  • Chinese: “非洲之角”
  • Croatian: “Afrički rog”
  • Croatian: “Rog Afrike”
  • Czech: “Africký roh”
  • Czech: “Somálský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Afrikas Horn”
  • Dutch: “Hoorn van Afrika”
  • Dutch: “Somalisch schiereiland”
  • Dutch: “Somalische schiereiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القرن الافريقى”
  • Esperanto: “Korno de Afriko”
  • Esperanto: “Somalia duoninsulo”
  • Estonian: “Aafrika Sarv”
  • Finnish: “Afrikan sarvi”
  • Finnish: “Afrikansarvi”
  • Finnish: “Koillis-Afrikka”
  • French: “Corne africaine”
  • French: “Corne de l’Afrique”
  • Galician: “Corno de África”
  • Georgian: “აფრიკის რქა”
  • Georgian: “სომალის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Horn von Afrika”
  • Greek: “Horn of Africa”
  • Greek: “Κέρας της Αφρικής”
  • Guarani: “Afrika Hatĩ”
  • Guarani: “Áfrika Ratĩ”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי הסומלי”
  • Hebrew: “צפון מזרח אפריקה”
  • Hebrew: “צפון-מזרח אפריקה”
  • Hebrew: “קרן אפריקה”
  • Hindi: “अफ्रीका का सींग”
  • Hindi: “अफ़्रीका का सींग”
  • Hindi: “अफ़्रीका का सीन्ग”
  • Hindi: “अफ्रीका के सींग”
  • Hindi: “अफ़्रीका के सींग”
  • Hindi: “अफ़्रीका के सीन्ग”
  • Hindi: “हार्न ऑफ़ अफ्रीका”
  • Hungarian: “Északkelet-Afrika”
  • Icelandic: “Horn Afríku”
  • Icelandic: “Sómalíu-skagi”
  • Iloko: “Sara ti Aprika”
  • Indonesian: “Tanduk Afrika”
  • Irish: “Corn na hAfraice”
  • Italian: “Aromatica Regio”
  • Italian: “Corno d’Africa”
  • Japanese: “アフリカの角”
  • Japanese: “ソマリア半島”
  • Japanese: “ソマリ半島”
  • Javanese: “Sungu Afrika”
  • Kabyle: “Icc n Tefriqt”
  • Kannada: “ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾದ ಕೊಂಬು”
  • Kashmiri: “افریٖقہ ہُک ہؠنٛگ”
  • Kazakh: “Сомали түбегі”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомали жарым аралы”
  • Korean: “소말리아 반도”
  • Korean: “아프리카의 뿔”
  • Kurdish: “Qoça Efrîqa”
  • Kurdish: “Qoçê Afrîkayê”
  • Kurdish: “Qoçê Efrîqa”
  • Kurdish: “Qoçê Efrîqayê”
  • Latin: “Cornu Africae”
  • Latvian: “Āfrikas rags”
  • Latvian: “Somālijas pussala”
  • Lithuanian: “Afrikos ragas”
  • Lithuanian: “Somalio pusiasalis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Har vun Afrika”
  • Macedonian: “Африкански Рог”
  • Malagasy: “Tandrok’ i Afrika”
  • Malagasy: “Tandrok’i Afrika”
  • Malay: “Tanduk Afrika”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോൺ ഒഫ് ആഫ്രിക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോൺ ഓഫ് ആഫ്രിക്ക”
  • Marathi: “आफ्रिकेचे शिंग”
  • Marathi: “हॉर्न ऑफ आफ्रिका”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hui-chiu-kak”
  • Minangkabau: “Tanduak Afrika”
  • Mingrelian: “სომალიშ ჩქონი”
  • Mongolian: “Сомалийн хойг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hurn faan Afrikoo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afrikahornet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afrikas horn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afrikas horn”
  • Norwegian: “Afrikas horn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bana d’Africa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Bana d’Africa”
  • Oromo: “Gaanfi Afrikaa”
  • Ossetian: “Африкæйы Сыкъа”
  • Ossetian: “Африкаг Сыкъа”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ ਦਾ ਸਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “شاخ آفریقا”
  • Persian: “شاخ افریقا”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Somalijski”
  • Polish: “Róg Afryki”
  • Portuguese: “Chifre da África”
  • Portuguese: “Corno da África”
  • Portuguese: “Corno de África”
  • Portuguese: “Nordeste Africano”
  • Portuguese: “Nordeste da África”
  • Portuguese: “Península Somali”
  • Romanian: “Cornul Africii”
  • Russia Buriat: “Африкын эбэр”
  • Russian: “Африканский Рог”
  • Russian: “Полуостров Сомали”
  • Russian: “Сомали”
  • Russian: “Сомалийский полуостров”
  • Rusyn: “Африканьскый ріг”
  • Rusyn: “Африцькый ріг”
  • Sardinian: “Corru de Àfrica”
  • Serbian: “Афрички рог”
  • Serbian: “Рог Африке”
  • Serbian: “Сомалијско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Afrički rog”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rog Afrike”
  • Shona: “Nyanga ye Afurika”
  • Shona: “Runyanga rwe Afurika”
  • Sindhi: “آفريقي سڱ”
  • Sindhi: “آفريڪي سڱ”
  • Slovak: “Africký roh”
  • Slovak: “Somálsky polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Afriški rog”
  • Somali: “Geeska Afrika”
  • Spanish: “Colmillo de Africa”
  • Spanish: “Colmillo de África”
  • Spanish: “Cuerno Africano”
  • Spanish: “Cuerno de Africa”
  • Spanish: “Cuerno de África”
  • Swahili: “Pembe la Afrika”
  • Swahili: “Pembe ya Afrika”
  • Swedish: “Afrikas horn”
  • Swedish: “KS25”
  • Tagalog: “Sungay ng Aprika”
  • Tamil: “ஆப்பிரிக்க கொம்பு”
  • Tamil: “ஆப்பிரிக்காவின் கொம்பு”
  • Tatar: “Сомали ярымутравы”
  • Telugu: “ఆఫ్రికా కొమ్ము”
  • Thai: “จะงอยแอฟริกา”
  • Turkish: “Afrika Boynuzu”
  • Tyap: “A̱fi̱fap-a̱byin Somali”
  • Tyap: “Afi̱rika A̱za-a̱tyin”
  • Tyap: “A̱ta̱m Afi̱rika ka”
  • Tyap: “A̱ta̱m Afi̱rika”
  • Ukrainian: “Африканський Ріг”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомалі”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомалійський півострів”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما صومال”
  • Urdu: “شمال مشرقی افریقہ”
  • Urdu: “قرن افریقا”
  • Urdu: “قرن افریقہ”
  • Urdu: “قرنِ افریقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Somali (yarim orol)”
  • Uzbek: “Somali”
  • Venetian: “Corno d’Africa”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Bắc Phi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sừng châu Phi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sừng phi Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Sừng châu Phi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sungay han Africa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sungay han Aprica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sungay han Aprika”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sungay han Apriká”
  • Welsh: “Corn Affrica”
  • Welsh: “Horn Affrica”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Somalia”
  • Western Frisian: “Hoarn fan Afrika”
  • Western Frisian: “Hoarne fan Afrika”
  • Western Panjabi: “افریقا دا سِنگ”
  • Western Panjabi: “افریقی سِنگ”
  • Western Panjabi: “قرن افریقا”
  • Wolof: “Bejenu Afrik”
  • Wolof: “Bejjenu Afrig”
  • Wolof: “Bejjenu Afrik”
  • Wu Chinese: “非洲之角”
  • Yoruba: “Horn of Africa”
  • Yoruba: “Ìwo Orí ilẹ̀ Áfríkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “非洲之角”

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