Aibat () is the second-largest of the six islands of the

Zeila Archipelago The Sa'ad ad-Din Islands (, ), also Romanized as and known as the Zeila Archipelago, are a group of islands off the northwestern coast of Somalia. They are situated near the ancient city of Zeila. The Zeila Archipelago is made of six small isl ...

. It has a lighthouse. It is a low and sandy island, with bushes, that is around 1.75 miles in length and around 0.55 miles in breadth. It is mostly surrounded by a reef. The island has an area of 1.58

square kilometers The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. In the SI unit of area (m2), 1 km2 is equal to 1M(m2). 1 km2 is equal to: * 1,000,000 squar ...

(158 hectares) and is located 1.9 kilometers north of Sacadin Island, the largest of the group, and about 21 kilometers east of the

Djibouti Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area ...

border.

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Islands of Somaliland {{Somaliland-geo-stub

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