Djibouti
Republic of Djibouti
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About Djibouti
Djibouti occupies a very 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. It is a strategic location near the world's busiest shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields. The country has mountains in the center of the country with Moussa Ali (2,028 m) as the highest point. Djibouti is a dry land with no forests.
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General information
- Capital: Djibouti City
- Language: French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar
- Climate: Desert; torrid, dry
- Timezone: UTC+3
- Currency: 1 Djiboutian franc (DJF) = 100 centimes
- Electricity plugs: c e (show)
- No. of inhabitants: 476,703 (July 2005 est.)
- Interl. accesscode +253
- Toplevel domain .dj
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The population is divided into two main groups, the Issa, or Somali people, which caused the civil war in the early 1990s.
Religion: Muslim, Christian minority
National holiday: Independence Day, 27 June (1977)
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