Geography of Djibouti
Located in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti is a small country of 23.000 km ², surrounded of the Ethiopia, Érythrée and Somalia.
The Republic of Djibouti is halfway of the Ecuador and the Tropic of Cancer. Its situation, on the Eastern coast of Africa, with the outlet of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, i.e. between Suez and the Far East, was - with the vicinity of the rich person provinces of Abyssinie - at the origin of its strategic importance.
Djibouti has a maritime frontage of 314 km, energy of the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean, while passing by the strait of Bab el Mandeb, this frontage extends from the Short-nap cloth Doumeira, in north, the village of Loyada, the south.
The territory has a great diversity of landscapes: mountains in north, lakes like the Lake Assal and the Lake Abbot, of the arid zones like the large and the small will bara.
A recent volcanic activity modelled the landscape. The last active volcano on the territory is the Ardoukoba.
See also: Towns of Djibouti
External bonds
- Site on the RDD
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