Key facts
- Country
- Djibouti
- Administrative centre
- Obock
- Total
- 4,700 km (1,800 sq mi)
- Density
- 8.0/km (21/sq mi)
- Iso 3166 code
- DJ-OB
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Encyclopedic overview
The Obock Region (Afar: Rakaakay Obock, Arabic: إقليم أوبوخ, Somali: Gobolka Obokh) is a region in northern Djibouti. Covering an area of 4,700 square kilometres (1,800 sq mi), it had an estimated population of 37,856 as of 2009.The region borders the Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Tadjoura, and includes the Seven Brothers, Doumeira Islands, and the coastal city of Obock. It also shares a section of Djibouti’s northern border with Eritrea. Geographically, Oblock is larger than Cape Verde but smaller than Trinidad and Tobago, featuring a mix of highland and coastal plains.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Obock Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.