Djibouti

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
DJ
ISO alpha-3
DJI
ISO numeric
262
FIPS 10-4
DJ
GeoNames ID
223816

Key facts

Capital
Djibouti
Area
23,000 km²
Population
958,920
Currency
Franc (DJF)
Calling code
+253
Top-level domain
.dj
Official languages
fr-DJ,ar,so-DJ,aa

Continent

Name
Africa
Code
AF
In this dataset
58 countries

Africa in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
11.83333
Longitude
42.5
Min latitude
10.929824931000084
Min longitude
41.74911014800006
Max latitude
12.707912502000056
Max longitude
43.418711785000085

Boundary

Djibouti

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/DJ?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 23000,
    "capital": "Djibouti",
    "continent_code": "AF",
    "currency_code": "DJF",
    "iso3_code": "DJI",
    "iso_code": "DJ",
    "name": "Djibouti",
    "population": 958920
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/DJ/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=DJ
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=DJ
  • /v1/timezones?country=DJ
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Name in other languages

Arabic
جيبوتي
Chinese
吉布提
English
Djibouti
French
Djibouti
German
Dschibuti
Hindi
जिबूती
Italian
Gibuti
Japanese
ジブチ
Korean
지부티
Portuguese
Djibuti
Russian
Джибути
Spanish
Yibuti
Total language variants
142

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Africa/Djibouti UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00

First-level administrative regions

  • Djibouti Region
  • Tadjourah
  • Dikhil
  • Ali Sabieh Region
  • Arta Region
  • Obock

6 of 6 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Djibouti 626,512
Balbala 554,350
Ali Sabih 50,006
Dikhil 32,801
Tadjoura 19,533
Arta 17,477
Obock 15,429
‘As ‘Êla 5,173
Damêrdjôg 5,115
Médého 4,000

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
70
First-level regions
6
Postal codes
0
Name languages
142
Boundary polygon
Yes

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