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DJIBOUTI, DJIBOUTI

   
    Djibouti is the capital of the East - African state Djibouti. The city has been based in 1888, and since 1892 the French Shore of Somalia was an administrative centre of colony. Since 1977 Djibouti is the capital of an independent state. The population of the city is about 417000 inhabitants (a larger part of the population of country).
    Djibouti is divided into two parts - the port on the peninsulas Marabut and Heron and the trade, business and residential quarters. Near the shore of ocean the presidential palace has been constructed in neo-Mauritanian style, but the majority of the buildings have typical features of colonial style.
    The capital Djibouti also is a large port in the Gulf of Aden. Basically the economy of the city is based on export of the Ethiopian goods (the port serves for more than halves of foreign trade operations of Ethiopia), and also on the service and refueling of the crafts which pass across the Red Sea. Besides the flock of firms on export of coffee, skin and salt work here. There is an international airport.

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