The Horn of Africa is a large peninsula in northeastern Africa that projects into the Arabian Sea, forming Africa's easternmost extension and lying across the Gulf of Aden from the Arabian Peninsula. It encompasses Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, and its terrain ranges from the Ethiopian Highlands in its interior to arid coastal lowlands, giving much of the region a drought-prone climate. The peninsula's location along one of the world's busiest shipping routes, near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, has long made it strategically significant.
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forming the Afar triple junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa.
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is a board game played in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somalia
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It consists chiefly of mountains uplifted through the formation of the Great Rift Valley, a fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates.
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