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Djibouti (also called Djibouti City and Jibuti in early Western texts) [a] is the capital city of the Republic of Djibouti. It is located in the coastal Djibouti Region on the Gulf of Tadjoura . Djibouti has a population of around 780,000 inhabitants, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] which counts for 73% of the country's population.
Ambouli in the Djibouti Region is identifies the city with Canbala by O.G.S. Crawford.Canbala appears in Muhammad al-Idrisi's map of 1192 on the coast of the Horn of Africa, southeast of the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, and with Cambaleh, a town where the Venetian traveler Bragadino, a thirteenth-century European visitor to Ethiopia, resided for eight years. [1]
An aerial view of Djibouti City, the capital of Djibouti. In 1966, France rejected the United Nations' recommendation that it should grant French Somaliland independence. In August of the same year, an official visit to the territory by then French President Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.
Map of Djibouti Djibouti, the national capital Ali Sabieh. This is a list of localities in Djibouti ordered by population according to the 2009 census. All ...
Djibouti's major settlements include the capital Djibouti City, the port towns of Tadjoura and Obock, and the southern cities of Ali Sabieh and Dikhil. It is the forty-six country by area in Africa and 147st largest country in the world by land area, covering a total of 23,200 km 2 (9,000 sq mi), of which 23,180 km 2 (8,950 sq mi) is land and ...
In 1967, the circle of Djibouti is transformed into sub-prefecture, then divided into three sub-prefectures. After independence in 1977, the circles become regions. The last important modification of the administrative map of the territory is the creation of the region of Arta in 2003.
The region is the largest of the country's 'six' (one of which is sometimes termed a city instead of a region, the country's eponymous capital with the bulk of the country's population, Djibouti City). A mixture of semi-desert mountains and desert, the region is 35.5 times larger than the capital's area and has a population nine times smaller.
Djibouti is sectioned into 5 regions and one city. It is further subdivided into 20 districts. The regions and city are: Ali Sabieh Region (Région d'Ali Sabieh) Arta Region (Région d'Arta) Dikhil Region (Région de Dikhil) Djibouti (city) (Ville de Djibouti) Obock Region (Région d'Obock) Tadjourah Region (Région de Tadjourah