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    HORN OF AFRICA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

    Meronyms (parts of "Horn of Africa"):

    Afars and Issas; Djibouti; Republic of Djibouti (a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997)

    Eritrea; State of Eritrea (an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993)

    Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Yaltopya (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia)

    Somalia (a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare)

    Domain region:

    Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

    Holonyms ("Horn of Africa" is a part of...):

    Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

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