Horn-of-africa meaning

(place) Easternmost part of NE Africa, on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, including Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, & Somalia.
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A peninsula in East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea.
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The Horn states: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.
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Horn-of-africa Sentence Examples

  • Cape Guardafui is in 110 75' N., 51° 26' 32" E., and forms, as it were, the tip of the Horn of Africa.

  • The head-rest common in the south-east and the southern fringe of the forest area is not found far north of Tanganyika until the Horn of Africa is reached.

  • The culture prevailing in the Horn of Africa is, naturally, mainly Hamito Semitic; here are found both cylindrical and bee-hive huts, the sword (which has been adopted by the Masai to the south), the lyre (which has found its way to some of the Nilotic tribes) and the head-rest.

  • Cape Guardafui is in 110 75' N., 51° 26' 32" E., and forms, as it were, the tip of the Horn of Africa.

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