Lake Assal, at 155 m below sea level, is the lowest point in Africa and one of the saltiest bodies of water anywhere.
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Djibouti
Republic of Djibouti ยท ุฌูุจูุชู
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
23.2Kkmยฒ of land
$3.41KGDP / person
DjiboutiCapital
- ISO codes
- DJ ยท DJI
- Density
- 42 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Currency
- Djiboutian franc (DJF)
- Dial code
- +253
- Internet domain
- .dj
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 11.9760ยฐ N, 42.4990ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Djibouti
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $3.32B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Djibouti stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
162nd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
150th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
170th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
166th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Djibouti
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 973,560 people, the 162nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 7,885 of everyone alive.
Covers 23,200 kmยฒ, making it the 150th largest country here - about 9 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 42 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Djibouti, at 11.60ยฐ N, 43.15ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 923,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Djibouti.
The currency is the Djiboutian franc (DJF, symbol Fr).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Djibouti
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UTC+03:00
Cities
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Djibouti
Djibouti
11.5950ยฐ N, 43.1480ยฐ E
923K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Djibouti.