[
US
/dʒɪˈbuˌti/
]
NOUN
- port city on the Gulf of Aden; the capital and largest city of Djibouti
- a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997
How To Use Djibouti In A Sentence
- What's next? A diplomat from Djibouti , a country in the Horn of Africa, provides a clue.
- To the north and northwest, the country borders the Sudan, to the south, Ethiopia, and to the southwest, Djibouti.
- Djiboutian landscape
- What's next? A diplomat from Djibouti , a country in the Horn of Africa, provides a clue.
- What he found when he visited Djibouti, a small, little-known country on the Horn of Africa, felt eerily familiar.
- Lewis also pays some attention to the wider regional context, particularly (of course) the Ogaden conflict in Ethiopia - the Ogaden are a Somali clan, and advocates of a Greater Somalia still hope to annex them along with northern Kenya and Djibouti (and I wish Lewis had also written a bit more about those two). Andrew Wakefield's faked research kills children
- It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the east, Kenya to the south, and the Sudan to the west.
- However, the 'plane was shot down near the north Ethiopian town of Adwa, about 400km from Djibouti, Bramdeo said. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south.
- Another important flagship species is the Djibouti francolin (Francolinus ochropectus, CR), which is found only in two sites in Djibouti, Forêt de Day, which is thought to be the only viable site for this imperiled species, and the nearby Mabla Mountains. Biological diversity in the Horn of Africa