Never colonised, it keeps its own 13-month calendar and is about seven years behind the Gregorian one.
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Ethiopia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia ยท แขแตแฎแตแซ
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
1.1Mkmยฒ of land
$856GDP / person
Addis AbabaCapital
- ISO codes
- ET ยท ETH
- Density
- 102 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Amharic
- Currency
- Ethiopian birr (ETB)
- Dial code
- +251
- Internet domain
- .et
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 8.0330ยฐ N, 39.0890ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Ethiopian
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $95.91B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Ethiopia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
12th
of 242 ยท 1.46% of world population
Land area
28th
of 242 ยท 0.74% of world land
GDP per person
216th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
102nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Ethiopia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 112,078,730 people, the 12th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.46 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,104,300 kmยฒ, making it the 28th largest country here - about 12 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 102 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Addis Ababa, at 9.04ยฐ N, 38.70ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,100,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Addis Ababa.
The currency is the Ethiopian birr (ETB, symbol Br).
The official language is Amharic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Addis Ababa
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa
9.0353ยฐ N, 38.6981ยฐ E
3.1M
2
Dire Dawa
Dire Dawa
9.5900ยฐ N, 41.8600ยฐ E
252.28K
3
Bahir Dar
Amhara
11.6001ยฐ N, 37.3833ยฐ E
206.75K
4
Gondar
Amhara
12.6100ยฐ N, 37.4600ยฐ E
156.23K
5
Mekele
Tigray
13.5000ยฐ N, 39.4700ยฐ E
95.86K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Ethiopia.