Djibouti is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

Republic of Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa.

This article is about the demographics of Djibouti, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Djibouti is a multiethnic country.

There is 6 administrative regions in Djibouti.

The right to own property is respected in Djibouti.

While there have been open elections of union leaders, the Government of Djibouti is working with the ILO to hold new elections.

Djibouti is mostly barren, with little development in the agricultural and industrial sectors.

As such, Djibouti ’ s economy is dominated by the services sector, providing services as both a transit port for the region and as an international transshipment and refuelling centre.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

There is very limited information for Djibouti ’ s current account ; the country ’ s merchandise trade deficit was estimated at US $ 737 million in 2004.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Djibouti at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Djiboutian francs.

Ambouli Airport, about 6 km from the city of Djibouti, is the country ’ s international air terminal.

The military of Djibouti is officially referred to as the Djibouti Armed Forces ( Forces Armees Djiboutiennes, FAD ).

Djibouti is greatly affected by events in Somalia and Ethiopia, and therefore relations are important and, at times, very delicate.

Though Djibouti is nominally neutral, it broke off relations with Eritrea in November 1998, renewing relations in 2000.

The railroad is tied to the Port of Djibouti, which provides port facilities and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia.

Djibouti is a member of La Francophonie ( since 1977 ), the Arab League, as well as the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD ).

Djibouti is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.

Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC.

Eritrea is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the northeast and east by the Red Sea, on the west and northwest by Sudan, on the south by Ethiopia, and on the southeast by Djibouti.

The plane was diverted to the small African nation of Djibouti, where it landed without further incident.

According to the 2011 census Nalbari district has a population of 769, 919, roughly equal to the nation of Djibouti or the US state of Alaska.

The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, India and the Maldives.

Bahamas, Bhutan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Djibouti, Dominica, Kiribati, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Niger, Palau, Rwanda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Somalia, Swaziland, Tonga, Tuvalu.

Around the 12th century AD, the Sultanate of Ifat was established in Djibouti and northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia with its capital at Zeila in northern Somalia.

Djibouti was part of Ottoman Empire in Habesh province between 1855-1884.

Place Menelik, Djibouti, c1905.

In 1894, he established a permanent French administration in the city of Djibouti and named the region Côte française des Somalis ( French Somaliland ), a name which continued until 1967.

The city of Djibouti, which had a harbor with good access that attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa, became the new administrative capital.

The Franco-Ethiopian railway, linking Djibouti to the heart of Ethiopia, began in 1897 and reached Addis Ababa in June 1917, increasing the volume of trade passing through the port.

In 1958, on the eve of neighboring Somalia's independence in 1960, a referendum was held in Djibouti to decide whether or not to join the Somali Republic or to remain with France.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.

Colloquially, about 36, 000 local residents speak the Ta ' izzi-Adeni Arabic dialect, also known as Djibouti Arabic.

Politics of Djibouti takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic.

Since the Somalis were one main ethnic group, they could only elect a single candidate and the two main fractions of that tribe in Djibouti, the Issa and the Gadabuursi each strove to win.

Djama Ali whilst walking in Djibouti was attacked by assailants believed to be of the Issas which prompted him to depart for France.

However his hasty return on August 18 sparked off fierce inter-tribal clashes between the Issa and the Gadabuursi, which in turn caused the Gadabuursi to withdraw from Djibouti politics and did not return to the political scene until after Djibouti's independence.

In 1981, Hassan Gouled Aptidon was elected as President of Djibouti.

Ismail Omar Guelleh took the oath of office as the second President of the Republic of Djibouti on May 8, 1999, with the support of an alliance between the RPP and the government-recognized section of the Afar-led FRUD.