Djibouti

Facts

What the numbers say about Djibouti

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 777× the size of Djibouti.
• At 53 people per km², Djibouti is the 116th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Djibouti lies at 12°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Djibouti's main territory stretches about 198 km north to south and 182 km east to west.
• Our measured 21,800 km² is 5.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 23,200 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Djibouti measures up

Djibouti holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 16th largest of 17.

Where Djibouti sits

• Djibouti's centre lies at 11.8°N, 42.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,310 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 11°N to 13°N, about 200 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Djibouti had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Djibouti would have 27.4 million people. It has 1.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Djibouti would have 81,000 people. It has 1.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.6 million.

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