Djibouti topographic map

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About this map

Name: Djibouti topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Djibouti (4.31460 35.34531 19.31460 50.34531)

Average elevation: 2,677 ft

Minimum elevation: -404 ft

Maximum elevation: 14,045 ft

Djibouti is situated in the Horn of Africa on the Gulf of Aden and the Bab-el-Mandeb, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. It lies between latitudes 11° and 14°N and longitudes 41° and 44°E, at the northernmost point of the Great Rift Valley. It is here in Djibouti that the rift between the African Plate and the Somali Plate meet the Arabian Plate, forming a geologic tripoint. The tectonic interaction at this tripoint has created the lowest elevation of any place in Africa, and indeed, the second lowest depression on dry land found anywhere on earth (surpassed only by the depression along the border of Jordan and Israel).