Map of Djibouti

Djibouti is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 11.5° N, 43.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Djibouti is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Djibouti shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Djibouti covers about 23,200 km² (8,958 sq mi). That makes it the 147th-largest country in the world by area and the 47th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,066,809, the 159th-largest in the world and the 50th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Djibouti has an average population density of about 46 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 50th by population and 47th by area.

The seat of government is Djibouti, and the official currency is the Djiboutian franc (DJF, Fr), and the main official languages are Arabic and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Djibouti carries the ISO country codes DJ and DJI, dials on the international calling code +253 and uses the .dj internet domain.

Djibouti shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Somalia (capital Mogadishu, about 19,655,000 people) and Eritrea (capital Asmara, about 3,607,000 people).

By area, Djibouti is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 11.5° N, 43.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Djibouti within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Djibouti. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Djibouti lies about 1,276 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Djibouti keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Djiboutian franc (DJF, Fr).

The official languages are Arabic and French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +253 and websites commonly use the .dj internet domain.

In short, Djibouti is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Djibouti. Djibouti has a population of about 1,066,809 and covers around 23,200 km² (8,958 sq mi), ranking it 159th in the world by population and 147th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Djibouti.

The flag of Djibouti is composed of two equal horizontal bands of light blue and light green, with a white isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. The triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about two-fifth the width of the field and bears a red five-pointed star at its center.

The flag of Djibouti is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.