Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ | |
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| Capital and largest city | Addis Ababa 9°1′N 38°45′E / 9.017°N 38.750°E |
| Official languages | Amharic[1][2] |
| Religion | Christianity (62.8%) Islam (33.9%) Traditional faiths (2.6%) Others (0.7%)[4] |
| Demonym(s) | Ethiopian* |
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional republic |
| Sahle-Work Zewde | |
| Abiy Ahmed Ali | |
| Demeke Mekonnen | |
| Tagesse Chafo | |
• President of the Federal Supreme Court | Meaza Ashenafi |
| Legislature | Federal Parliamentary Assembly |
| House of Federation | |
| House of Peoples' Representatives | |
| Formation | |
• Dʿmt | c. 980 BCE |
| c. 100 CE | |
| 900 | |
| 1137 | |
| 1936 | |
• Sovereignty restored | 1941 |
| 1974 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1993 | |
| 21 August 1995 | |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,104,300[5] km2 (426,400 sq mi) (28th) |
• Water (%) | 0.7 |
| Population | |
• 2018 estimate | 109,224,414[6][7] (12th) |
• 2007 census | 73,750,932[8] |
• Density | 92.7/km2 (240.1/sq mi) (123rd) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $240.168 billion[9] |
• Per capita | $2,701[9] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $103.607 billion[9] |
• Per capita | $1,066[9] |
| Gini (2011) |  33.6[10]medium |
| HDI (2018) |  0.470[11]low · 173rd |
| Currency | Birr (ETB) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +251 |
| ISO 3166 code | ET |
| Internet TLD | .et |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somaliland to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest. With over 109 million inhabitants as of 2019, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent. The country has a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi). Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa, which lies a few miles west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the Nubian and Somali tectonic plates.