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  DJIBOUTI

Size of country in square miles:

Djibouti: 8,958 Square Miles USA: 3,794,100 Square Miles

Population Density in People Per Square Mile: ﻿  Djibouti:86.6 People USA:81 People

﻿Gross Domestic Product Per Capital: Djibouti: Per Capital $2,061 USA: $45,592 Per Capital

Political and Physical Map of Your Country:

Political Map of Djibouti Physical Map of Djibouti

Image of Their Flag: ﻿Djibouti's Flag.

﻿ The star indicates the hard ships Djibouti’s had to overcome to gain independence from France in 1958. The red symbolizes the bloodshed in the gruesome war against the French. The five points on the star represent the five verses of the sirnanking (Djibouti’s national anthem).the white indicates sex and intrigue. The green represents the desire for money, natural resources, and material goods, which they are lacking. Blue represents the ceremony of throwing 1000 grains of salt, broken pieces of shell, and grains of rice in the Indian Ocean, which they border.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Life expectancy: <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿ Djibouti: 55.4 Years Old USA: 78.4 Years Old.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Birth Rate: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Djibouti : 25.58 USA: 13.83

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Infant Mortality Rate: <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">﻿ Djibouti: 98 Babies USA: 6 Babies

Language(s) Spoken: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Afar, Arabic Standard, Arabic, Ta’izzi-Adeni Spoken, French, Somali.

** Monterey Unit ** 1 U.S.Dollar = 179,472 Djiboutian Franc

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Type of Government: <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Djibouti= Republic <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">United States= Democracy <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Difference= the difference is that a democracy is a government ruled by majority

Political Leader: <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Ismail Omar Guelleh. President of Djibouti. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Religions practiced: <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">99% of Djibouti’s population is Muslim. Djibouti is an Islamic Country. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">﻿<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Literacy Rate: <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Djibouti- MALE= 80% FEMALE= 61% TOTAL= 71% USA- MALE= 99% FEMALE= 99% TATAL= 99%

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Economic Summary: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Most of Djibouti’s economy relies on its sea port. Goods travel through the port regularly because of the poor relations with Eritrea; this makes the port their only access to the red sea. In exchange Djibouti depends on Ethiopia for its khat supply. Also, Djibouti produces 5% of its food supply and imports most of the food from Ethiopia by train. Natural resources are very low and not exploited. Djibouti people do not fish because the people are mainly herders. Another part of national income is form French aid and leasing of military bases to France and the United States.

History:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Ablé immigrants from Arabia migrated to what is now Djibouti in about the 3rd century B.C. Their descendants are the Afars, one of the two main ethnic groups that make up Djibouti today. Somali Issas arrived after. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Djibouti was acquired by France between 1843 and 1886 through treaties with the Somali sultans. Small, arid, and sparsely populated, it is important chiefly because of the capital city's port, the terminal of the Djibouti–Addis Ababa railway that carries 60% of Ethiopia's foreign trade. Originally known as French Somaliland, the colony voted in 1958 and 1967 to remain under French rule. It was renamed the Territory of the Afars and Issas in 1967 and took the name of its capital city on June 27, 1977, when France transferred sovereignty to the new independent nation of Djibouti. On Sept. 4, 1992, voters approved in referendum a new multiparty constitution. In 1991, conflict between the Afars and the Issa-dominated government erupted and the continued warfare has ravaged the country. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The dictatorial president, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who had run the country since its independence, finally stepped aside in 1999, and Ismail Omar Guelleh was elected president. In March 2000, the main Afars rebel group signed a peace accord with the government. The fighting, severe drought, and the presence of tens of thousands of refugees from its war-torn neighbors, Ethiopia and Somalia, has severely strained Djibouti's agricultural capacity.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A color-coded paragraph that compares and contrasts three ways in which life would similar and three ways life would be different living in your country: Life would be different if I lived in Djibouti, and not the United States. For example, if I lived in Djibouti I wouldn’t have the freedom that I do here in the United States, like have freedom of speech, or be offered a higher education opportunity. Another difference is that the United States is a lot wealthier than Africa; if my life was there I wouldn’t be able to have as good a house or car, also 40% of the people live below the poverty line. The last difference is that the president in Djibouti runs six year terms; this could be a problem because if the president wasn’t liked, he’s in office longer than he would be in the United States. As you can see my life would change tremendously if I lived in Djibouti Africa.

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