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- Djibouti is a country in Africa.
- Djibouti is a country in northeast Africa. Djibouti is the capital and the largest city. There are no ice rinks and no ice hockey is played there.
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- After Germany won the Second World War, French Somaliland was integrated into Germany's empire.
- Djibouti, along with Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia is under the jurisdiction of the Holy Archdiocese of Aksum of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa.
- Djiboutiday.png|Djibouti at daytime Djiboutinight.png|Djibouti at night Djibouti is a city in , in . It has a population of 0.6 Million people and it is a .
- The national flag of Djibouti features two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and green with a white isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bearing a red five-pointed star in the centre.
- Djibouti is also one of the hottest places on earth.
- Djibouti (jee-BOO-tee; Arabic: جيبوتي Jībūtī, French: Djibouti, Somali: Jabuuti, Afar: Gabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Djibouti occupies a total area of just 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq mi). More information on the Wikipedia page [1].
- Created by the French as a practical joke, Djibouti was a regular source of amusement for France's ruler, an 8-year-old boy. France regularly tried to exploit the nation's lack of natural resources till it became clear there were none. The French also kept the natives from killing each other for a few centuries until July 27, 1977, when the joke got old and France ditched it in favor of attempting to annex the Greek island Lesbos. Without anyone there to stop them, the natives began to oppress and kill each other and Djibouti collapsed into a bloody civil war until it was established that there was actually nothing worth fighting over.
- The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afars minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 following the conclusion of a peace accord between Afar rebels and the Issa-dominated government. In 1999, Djibouti's first multi-party presidential elections resulted in the election of Ismail Omar GUELLEH; he was re-elected to a second term in 2005. Djibouti occupies a strategic geographic location at the mouth of the Red Sea and serves as an important transshipment location for goods entering and leaving the east African highlands. The present leadership favors close ties to France, which maintains a significant milita
- The land was originally known as Obock, where Afars and Somalis shared the land. When the French came in the mid-1800s, the sultans in the area began to sign treaties with them, giving them each time more control until France’s influence was big enough to firmly establish a colony, the French Somaliland. Incidentally, this area was one of the first places where Islam came to Africa. Accordingly, the country is highly Islamic (94%). The remaining is Christian.
- Djibouti (official name: the Republic of Djibouti) is a small country located in the eastern part of Africa - in the region known as the Horn of Africa. The country shares its borders with Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, as also with the Red Sea.
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