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the so-called Horn of Africa is named as such because it does in fact look like an animal's horn
but confusingly the horn of South America doesn't look anything like a horn, it's just the bottom of South America. So if you were growing up and learned about Cape Horn first (me), and heard the sea shanties about "making it round the horn" you could be forgiven for hearing the phrase "the horn of Africa" and thinking that referred to the bottom of Afrcia i.e South Africa and Cape Town. But it doesn't. It's nowhere near there.