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Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya
Chad
Central
African Republic
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Angola
Zambia
Egypt
Mozambique
Key
No. of people/km 2
< 1
1 - 10
11 - 20
21 - 50
61 - 100
> 100
Lakes
Bounding countries
International boundaries
Rivers
Capital cities
Figure 2.5
Human population density in eastern Africa in 2001. From Deichmann, 1996; Thornton et al.,
2002.
live in areas marginally suitable for cultivation in Eritrea around Asmara, in
central Sudan and along the coasts of Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia . The only
places where many people live in drylands are along the Nile in northern
Sudan, around Mogadishu in Somalia and in western Somaliland of northern
Somalia. Few people live in most of the drylands of eastern Africa and in the