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Djibouti
Capital: Djibouti
- Djibouti had 1,066,809 people at the 2024 census, the smallest population of any country on mainland Africa.
- Lake Assal lies about 155 metres below sea level and its water averages about 35 per cent salt.
- Lake Abbé has limestone chimneys up to 50 metres tall, with steam rising from them where lake water mixes with hot underground fluid.