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List Of Localities In Djibouti
This is a list of localities in Djibouti ordered by population according to the 2009 census. All settlements with a population over 10,000 are included. List Other cities * As Ela (ايلى) * Assa Hougoud (أسا هوغود‎) *Assamo (أسامو) * Balho (بالهو) * Chebelle (شبيلي) * Daimoli (دايمولي) * Daoudaouya (داوديا) * Dorale (دورال) * Doumera (دوميرا) * Godoria (غودوريا) * Khor Angar (خور أنغار) * Randa (راندا) * Ras Siyyan (رأس سيان) * Sagallou (ساجالو) *Yoboki (يوبوكي) Towns and villages * Boul'aos ( ar, بولعوس) See also *List of cities in East Africa *List of metropolitan areas in Africa *List of largest cities in the Arab world References External links {{List of cities in the Middle East Djibouti, List of cities in Djibouti Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, ...
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Djibouti, ar, جيبوتي ', french: link=no, Djibouti, so, Jabuuti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area of . In antiquity, the territory, together with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland, was part of the Land of Punt. Nearby Zeila, now in Somaliland, was the seat of the medieval Adal and Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established following treaties signed by the ruling Dir Somali sultans with the French, and its railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly supersede Zeila as the port for southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden. It was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967. A decade later, the Djiboutian people voted for independence. This officially marked the establishment of the ''Republic ...
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Lists Of Cities By Country
This is a list of lists on the cities of present-day nations, states and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized. __NOTOC__ A * List of cities in Abkhazia - Republic of Abkhazia * List of cities in Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan * List of cities in Albania - Republic of Albania * List of cities in Algeria - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria * List of cities in Andorra - Principality of Andorra * List of cities in Angola - Republic of Angola * List of cities in Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua and Barbuda * List of cities in Argentina - Argentine Republic * List of cities in Armenia - Republic of Armenia * List of cities in Aruba - Aruba (''Dutch crown dependency'') * List of cities in Australia - Commonwealth of Australia * List of cities in Austria - Republic of Austria * List of cities in Azerbaijan - Republic of Azer ...
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Populated Places In Djibouti
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with in ...
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List Of Largest Cities In The Arab World
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League. Largest cities Largest cities in the Arab world by official cities proper: See also *List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East * List of Arab countries by population *List of largest cities in the Levant region by population References {{Urban pop list Cities Arab League Cities,largest Arab world The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western A ... Cities,largest ...
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List Of Metropolitan Areas In Africa
This is a list of the largest urban agglomerations in Africa. Figures are from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report, as well as from ''citypopulation.de''. Figures for administrative areas are also given. , 3,497,097 (2007)Metropolitan municipality , 4,618,000 , 4,300,000 , , - , Kano , , data-sort-value=2153225, 2,153,225 (2006)6 local government areas of Kano proper , 3,999,000 , 4,850,000 , , - , Dakar , , data-sort-value=2452656, 2,452,656 (2005)Région , 3,140,000 , 3,925,000 , , - , Addis Ababa , , data-sort-value=2738248, 2,738,248 (2007)Astedader , 4,794,000 , 3,900,000 , , - , Ibadan , , data-sort-value=1338659, 2,559,853 , 3,552,000 , 3,675,000 , , - , Douala , , data-sort-value=1514978, 1,514,978 (2001)Wouri département , 3,663,000 , 3,450,000 , , - , Durban , , data-sort-value=3468086, 3,468,086 (2007)Metropolitan municipality , 3,158,000 , 3,475,000 , , - , Ouagadougou , , data-sort-value=1475223, 1,475,223 (2006)Municipality , ...
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List Of Cities In East Africa
The following is a list of the largest cities by population and of capital cities in the geographic region of East Africa. Because population counts in each country occur at different times, the list of numbers is meant as a rough indicator of relative size. List of capital cities See also * List of metropolitan areas in Africa * Lists of cities in Africa, mostly by country * List of largest cities in the Arab world * Urbanization in Africa * References {{Africa topic, List of cities in Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... .east ...
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Boul'aos
Boul'aos ( ar, بولعوس) is a town in Djibouti. It is located in the Djibouti region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ..., just outside the capital. External linksSatellite map at Maplandia.com Populated places in Djibouti {{Djibouti-geo-stub ...
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Yoboki
Yoboki ( ar, يوبوكي) is a town located in the western Dikhil Region of Djibouti. It is situated approximately west of the nation's capital city of Djibouti, and roughly northwest of Dikhil, the regional capital. History Yoboki was established as a French military post in 1946, and buildings were constructed between July and November 1947 at the location of a well. The first meeting between the French soldiers, who began to occupy the territory, and representatives of the Sultan of Awsa, including Mahammad Yayyó, took place here. In 1958, a school was opened for the nomads. In 1979 a French teacher was kidnapped in Yoboki. Bomb attacks by an unknown perpetrator were reported in mid-May 1990, which affected electric and military installations in the town. Due to conflict in the area between rebels and the government, since March 28, 1992 troops from the 5th Interarm Regiment of the French Overseas Navy have been deployed in Yoboki, Obock, and Tadjoura. The rebels were driv ...
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Ras Siyyan
Ras Siyyan or Ras Siyan ( ar, رأس سيان) is a peninsula in the Obock Region of Djibouti, on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden), about 20 km southwest of Perim Island. The peninsula consists of a reddish volcanic hill about 1.2 by 0.5 km and 138 m high, Sailing Directions (Enroute) - Red Sea and Persian Gulf'' page 161. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency pub. 172. Accessed 2012-07-6. connected towards to the mainland by a low sandy strip that stretches south by about 5 km while widening from 500 to 800 m.William James Lloyd Wharton, John Phillips (1900), The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot' page 230. Great Britain Hydrographic Offic. The Ras Siyyan volcano is currently inactive but young, having erupted through a 21,000-year-old coral reef formation. To the west of Ras Siyyan there is a shallow marshy bay or lagoon, about 2.5 km wide, protected on the north side by shallow coral banks. The bay is fringed with patches of mangrove bush ...
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Randa, Djibouti
Randa ( ar, راندا) is a town in central Djibouti located in Tadjoura. It is the capital of the Randa District. The settlement lies in a small valley, north of the Day Forest National Park in the Goda Mountains. It is located on the RN-11 Highway, which connects it to Tadjoura, located some to the south. History Randa has played an important role in trade between the port of Tadjoura, and the hinterland, once dynamic and prosperous possessing a well on its bed of wadi which crossed it and has one of the mildest climates in Djibouti. The beginning of the civil conflict in December 1991, when the FRUD rebels captured Randa and neighbouring towns. However, the Djiboutian Army re-took the town in October 1993. Overview The settlement lies in a small valley, north of the RN-11 road which leaves the coast to the south to head west towards Dorra. It is within of the Day Forest National Park in the Goda Mountains to the south. Geography Randa's altitude gives the settlemen ...
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