Djibouti in other languages: جيبوتي, Jabuuti and the five regions
Djibouti is the same word in French and in Arabic, جيبوتي (Ǧībūtī), and Jabuuti in Somali; ISO 3166-1 codes the country DJ, DJI and 262. The list gives the name in 167 languages and the five regions and the capital city in French, Arabic and Somali, with their ISO 3166-2 codes.
Official languagesFrench, Arabic; also Somali
Checked
- alpha-2
- DJ
- alpha-3
- DJI
- numeric
- 262
République de Djibouti
جمهورية جيبوتيǦumhūrīyâẗu Ǧībūtī
Jamhuuriyadda Jabuuti
- English
- DjiboutiRepublic of Djibouti
- Capital
- DjiboutiجيبوتيJabuutiDjibouti
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026
Djibouti in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Breton, Catalan, Welsh, Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Kven, French, Manx, Haitian Creole, Indonesian, Javanese, Jersey Norman French, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Northern Sami, Swedish, Võro, Walloon | eng / bre / cat / cym / dan / fao / fin / fkv / fra / glv / hat / ind / jav / jnf / nld / nor / ron / sme / swe / vor / wln | Djibouti | same as written |
| Bambara, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, Wolof | bam / ibo / kin / run / swa / wol | Jibuti | same as written |
| Lower Sorbian, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Slovenian, Silesian | dsb / hrv / hsb / slv / szl | Džibuti | same as written |
| Aragonese, Asturian, Nahuatl, Spanish | arg / ast / nah / spa | Yibuti | same as written |
| Basque, Interlingua, Lingala, Novial | eus / ina / lin / nov | Djibuti | same as written |
| German, Luxembourgish, Low German | deu / ltz / nds | Dschibuti, Djibouti | same as written |
| Italian, Ladin, Sardinian | ita / lld / srd | Gibuti | same as written |
| Czech, Slovak | ces / slk | Džibutsko, Džibuti* | same as written |
| Romansh, Saterland Frisian | roh / stq | Dschibuti | same as written |
| Turkish, Zazaki | tur / zza | Cibuti | same as written |
| Afar | aar | Gabuuti, Gabuutiiy | same as written |
| Afrikaans | afr | Djiboeti | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Cibuti / Ҹибути | Cibuti |
| Bosnian | bos | Džibuti / Џибути / جٖىبۆتٖى | Džibuti |
| Cornish | cor | Jibouti | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar | crh | Cibuti / Джибути | Cibuti |
| Esperanto | epo | Ĝibutio | same as written |
| Estonian | est | Džibuuti, Djibouti | same as written |
| Franco-Provençal | frp | Dj·iboti | same as written |
| West Frisian | fry | Dzjibûty | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Gjibuti, Zibuti | same as written |
| Gagauz | gag | Cibuti / Ӂибути | Cibuti |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Diobutaidh | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Diobúití | same as written |
| Galician | glg | Xibutí, Xibuti | same as written |
| Hawaiian | haw | Dibuti | same as written |
| Hungarian | hun | Dzsibuti | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Djíbútí | same as written |
| Karakalpak | kaa | Djibuti / Джибути | Djibuti |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Cîbûtî | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Dzibutum, Gibutum | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Džibutija, Džibuti* | same as written |
| Limburgish | lim | Djiboeti, Djibouti | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Džibutis | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Džibuts | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Dziboti | same as written |
| Maltese | mlt | Ġibuti | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Djibuti / Ӂибути | Djibuti |
| Malay | msa | Djibouti / جيبوتي | Djibouti |
| Norman French | nrm | Jibouoti | same as written |
| Occitan | oci | Djiboti, Jiboti | same as written |
| Polish | pol | Dżibuti | same as written |
| Portuguese | por | Jibuti, Djibuti, Djibouti | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Yiwuti | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Jibuti / जिबुती | Jibuti |
| Aromanian | rup | Gibouti | same as written |
| Sicilian | scn | Gibbuti | same as written |
| Slovio | slo | Gxibuti / Джибути | Gxibuti |
| Samogitian | smg | Džėbotis | same as written |
| Somali | som | Jabuuti | same as written |
| Albanian | sqi | Xhibuti | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Jibutí | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Jibuti / Джибути | Jibuti |
| Uzbek | uzb | Djibuti / Джибути / دجىبۇتى | Djibuti |
| Vietnamese | vie | Gi-bu-ti | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Cibutän | same as written |
| Abaza, Altai, Avar, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Ossetian, Russian, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abq / alt / ava / bul / chv / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / oss / rus / tyv / udm / xal | Джибути | Džibuti |
| Abkhaz | abk | Џыбути | Džybuti |
| Bashkir | bak | Джибути / Djibuti | Djibuti |
| Belarusian | bel | Джыбуты / Džybuty, Джыбуці / Džybuci | Džybuty, Džybuci |
| Chechen | che | Джибути / Dƶibuti | Dƶibuti |
| Kazakh | kaz | Джибути / دجيبۋتي / Djïbwtï | Djïbwtï |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Джибути / دجىبۇتى / Dcibuti | Dcibuti |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Щибути / Cîbûtî | Cîbûtî |
| Macedonian | mkd | Џибути | Džibuti |
| Mongolian | mon | Жибути | J̌ibuti |
| Rusyn | rue | Джібутьско | Džibut'sko |
| Yakut | sah | Дьибути | D'ibuti |
| Serbian | srp | Џибути / Džibuti | Džibuti |
| Tatar | tat | Җибути / Cibuti / جىبۇتى | Cibuti |
| Tajik | tgk | Ҷибути / جیبوتی / Çibuti | Çibuti |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Джибуті, Джібуті | Džybuti, Džibuti |
| Arabic | ara | جيبوتي, دجيبوتي | Ǧībūtī, Dǧībūtī |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | جیبوتی / Cibuti | Cibuti |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | جیبوتی / Cîbutî | Cîbutî |
| Persian | fas | جیبوتی / Jibuti | Jibuti |
| Western Punjabi, Urdu | pnb / urd | جبوتی | Jibūtī |
| Dari | prs | جیبوتی | Jībūtī |
| Pashto | pus | جيبوتي | Jībūtī |
| Uyghur | uig | جىبۇتى / Jibuti / Джибути | Jibuti |
| Dhivehi | div | ޖިބޫޓީ | Jibūṫī |
| Hebrew | heb | ג׳יבוטי | Jībūṭī |
| Ladino | lad | גﬞיבוטי / Djibuti | Djibuti |
| Yiddish | yid | דזשיבוטי | Džibuti |
| Amharic | amh | ጅቡቲ, ጂቡቲ | Jəbuti, Jibuti |
| Tigrinya | tir | ጅቡቲ | Jəbuti |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Τζιμπούτι, Τζιμπουτί | Tzimpoýti, Tzimpoytí |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Δζιμπουτῆ, Τζιμπουτῆ, Τζιμπουτί | Dzimpoytī̃, Tzimpoytī̃, Tzimpoytí |
| Armenian | hye | Ջիբուտի, Ջիբութի | J̌ibouti, J̌ibout̕i |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | ჯიბუტი | J̌ibuti |
| Laz | lzz | ჯიბუტი / Cibut’i | Cibut’i |
| Hindi | hin | जिबूती | Jibūtī |
| Bengali | ben | জিবুতি | Jibuti |
| Gujarati | guj | જિબુટી | Jibuṭī |
| Odia | ori | ଜିବୁତୀ | Jibutī |
| Punjabi | pan | ਜੀਬੂਟੀ | Jībūṭī |
| Sinhala | sin | ජිබුටි | Jibuṭi |
| Kannada | kan | ದ್ಜಿಬೂಟಿ | Djibūṭi |
| Malayalam | mal | ജിബൂട്ടി | Jibūṭṭi |
| Tamil | tam | ஜிபூட்டி | Jipūṭṭi |
| Telugu | tel | జిబౌటి | Jibauṭi |
| Chinese | zho | 吉布提 | Jíbùtí |
| Japanese | jpn | ジブチ | Jibuchi |
| Korean | kor | 지부티 | Jibuti |
| Tibetan | bod | ཇི་བའོ་ཊི། | Ji.bō.ṭi |
| Burmese | mya | ဂျီဘူတီ | Jibʰuti |
| Thai | tha | จิบูติ, จิบูตี | Čibūti, Čibūtī |
| Khmer | khm | ហ្ស៊ីបូទី, ជីបូទី, ឌ្យីប៊ូទី | Hsībūtī, Čībūtī, Dyībūtī |
The forms marked with an asterisk, Czech and Latvian Džibuti, name the city; the forms before them name the country.
Djibouti, Dschibuti, Yibuti: one sound, many spellings
The country and its capital share one name, so the spellings below serve for both in most languages. Everything turns on the first sound, written dj in French. 21 languages keep the French spelling, English, Danish and Finnish among them. German writes Dschibuti, Spanish Yibuti, Italian Gibuti, Hungarian Dzsibuti, Polish Dżibuti and Turkish Cibuti; Croatian, Slovenian and the two Sorbian languages share Džibuti.
East African languages simplify it to Jibuti, in Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Igbo and Wolof. Somali, one of the languages of the country, says Jabuuti, and Afar has Gabuuti. Czech and Latvian separate the state from the city: Džibutsko and Džibutija name the country, Džibuti the town.
In Arabic the name is جيبوتي, Ǧībūtī; the full title جمهورية جيبوتي means the Republic of Djibouti. Cyrillic gives Джибути (Džibuti) in Russian, Bulgarian and fifteen other languages.
Regions of Djibouti in French, Arabic and Somali
Djibouti has five regions and the city of Djibouti, which forms a unit of its own. Each name is given in French, in Arabic with a transliteration, and in Somali; the seat is named in French with its Arabic and Somali forms.
| ISO 3166-2 | French | Arabic | Somali | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regions5 | ||||||
| DJ-AS | Région d’Ali Sabieh | منطقة علي سابيهMinṭaqâẗu ʿAlī Sābīh | Gobolka Calisabiix | Ali Sabieh Region | Ali Sabiehعلي سابيه · Calisabiix | |
| DJ-AR | Région d’Arta | منطقة عرتاMinṭaqâẗu ʿArtā | Gobolka Carta | Arta Region | Artaعرتا · Carta | 2005 Added to ISO 3166-2 as a new region |
| DJ-DI | Région de Dikhil | منطقة دخيلMinṭaqâẗu Diḫīl | Gobolka Dikhil | Dikhil Region | Dikhilدخيل · Dikhil | |
| DJ-OB | Région d’Obock | منطقة أوبوكMinṭaqâẗu Ūbūk | Gobolka Obokh | Obock Region | Obockأوبوك · Obokh | |
| DJ-TA | Région de Tadjoura | منطقة تاجورةMinṭaqâẗu Tāǧūrâ | Gobolka Tojora | Tadjourah Region | Tadjouraتاجورة · Tojora | |
| City1 | ||||||
| DJ-DJ | Ville de Djibouti | مدينة جيبوتيMadīnâẗu Ǧībūtī | Magaalada Jabuuti | Djibouti (city) | Djiboutiجيبوتي · Jabuuti | |
Codes: ISO 3166-2:DJ on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, read from the English Wikipedia table that reproduces it on 28 October 2026, with newsletter I-7 of 13 September 2005. ISO spells the fifth region Tadjourah. Names in the three languages and seats: the 2017 edition of this list.
Somali c and Arabic ʿayn
Set side by side, the Arabic and Somali names show how the two spellings match. Where Arabic has the letter ʿayn, Somali writes c: Ali Sabieh, علي سابيه (ʿAlī Sābīh) in Arabic, is Calisabiix in Somali, and Arta, عرتا (ʿArtā), is Carta. The final h of Sābīh appears as x at the end of Calisabiix.
Each region bears the name of its seat. ISO 3166-2 added Arta in newsletter I-7 of 13 September 2005, together with a new list source; it now gives the Arabic forms in the BGN/PCGN romanisation, as ‘Alī Şabīḩ or Tājūrah. Somali forms differ further from French in the north: Obock is Obokh, Tadjoura Tojora.
Questions about the name Djibouti
How do you write Djibouti in Arabic?
جيبوتي, transliterated Ǧībūtī. The Republic of Djibouti is جمهورية جيبوتي.
What is Djibouti called in Somali?
Jabuuti, and the city of Djibouti is Magaalada Jabuuti.
What are the ISO codes of Djibouti?
DJ, DJI and 262 in ISO 3166-1. The city is DJ-DJ, the regions DJ-AR, DJ-AS, DJ-DI, DJ-OB and DJ-TA.