Djibouti

Djibouti Google Maps

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Djibouti

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Djibouti (DJ). Explore Djibouti’s satellite imagery, the capital city of Djibouti, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Djibouti (GPS: 11 30 N, 43 00 E) is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia. The country’s area measurements are total: 23,200 sq km; land: 23,180 sq km, water: 20 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than New Jersey. The total irrigated land is 10 sq km (2012).

Djibouti’s important features are strategic location near the world’s busiest shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields. The terminus of rail traffic into Ethiopia. Mostly wasteland. Lac Assal (Lake Assal) is the lowest point in Africa and the world’s saltiest lake.

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Eritrea Google Maps

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Eritrea

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Eritrea (ER). Explore satellite imagery of Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Eritrea (GPS: 15 00 N, 39 00 E) is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan. The country’s area measurements are total: 117,600 sq km; land: 101,000 sq km, water: 16,600 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Pennsylvania. The total irrigated land is 210 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Eritrea: Strategic geopolitical position along the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Eritrea retained Ethiopia’s entire coastline along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993.

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Ethiopia Google Maps

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Ethiopia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Ethiopia (ET). Explore satellite imagery of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Ethiopia (GPS: 8 00 N, 38 00 E) located in Eastern Africa, west of Somalia. The country’s area measurements are total: 1,104,300 sq km; land: 1 million sq km, water: 104,300 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than twice the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is 2,900 sq km (2012).

One of Ethiopia’s essential features: Landlocked – the entire coastline along the Red Sea was lost with the de jure independence of Eritrea on 24 May 1993. Ethiopia is, therefore, the most populous landlocked country in the world. The Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in Lake Tana in northwest Ethiopia. Three major crops are believed to have originated in Ethiopia: coffee, grain sorghum, and castor bean.

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Somalia Google Maps

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Somalia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Somalia (SO). Explore satellite imagery of Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Somalia (GPS: 10 00 N, 49 00 E) is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia. The country’s area measurements are total: 637,657 sq km; land: 627,337 sq km, water: 10,320 sq km. This sovereign state is almost five times the size of Alabama, slightly smaller than Texas. The total irrigated land is 2,000 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Somalia: Strategic location in the Horn of Africa along with southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

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