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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Djibouti
- Country
- Djibouti
- Located in
- Djibouti
- Contains
- Obock
- Capital
- Obock
- Population
- 37856
- Area
- 4700.0
- Elevation
- 773
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Tadjourah Region
- Image
- Obock Region landscape.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Obock Region
- Commons category
- Obock Region
- native label
- أوبوك
- language used
- Afar
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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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.