Ethiopia Tourism Opportunities

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of 1,104,300 square kilom…
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of 1,104,300 square kilometres. As of 2024, it has around 132 million inhabitants, making it the tenth-most populous country in the world, the second-most populous in Africa after Nigeria, and the most populated landlocked country on Earth. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates.
  • Official languages: Amharic · Afar · Oromo · Somali · Tigrinya
  • Government: Federal parliamentary republic under an authoritarian government
  • Legislature: Federal Parliamentary Assembly
  • Capital and largest city: Addis Ababa
  • Regional languages: Harari · Sidama · Languages of Ethiopia
  • Ethnic groups (2007): 34.5% Oromo · 26.9% Amhara · 6.2% Somali · 6.1% Tigrayan · 4.0% Sidama · 2.5% Gurage · 2.3% Welayta · 1.7% Hadiya · 1.7% Afar · 1.5% Gamo · 12.6% others
  • Religion (2016): 67.3% Christianity · 43.8% Ethiopian Orthodoxy · 22.8% P'ent'ay · 0.7% other Christian · 31.3% Islam · 0.6% traditional faiths · 0.8% others/none

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Data from: en.wikipedia.org