Ethiopia

Travelers to Ethiopia experience a country divided into two: in the north and east the focus is on cultural heritage, while in the south there are several national parks and lakes in the area of the East African Rift with their flora and fauna as well as the habitat of several indigenous peoples.
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is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.
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is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the…

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is the historic heartland of Ethiopia.
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, historically known as Shewa, is the…
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is the southern part of Ethiopia.
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is a predominantly Muslim part of the country.
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is the least-travelled part of the country.

Ethiopia

  • Country with about 129,000,000 residents
  • …was formerly known as “Abyssinia”
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Birr (ETB)
  • …has the phone code 251
  • …uses the internet domain .et
  • …covers 1,127,127 km² (435,186 miles²)
  • Description: country in the Horn of Africa
  • Also known as
    “Abessinien”
    “Abissinia”
    “Abyssinie”
    “El Habesha”
    “et”
    “Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia”
    “Hibreteseb’āwīt Ītyop’iya”
    “Ītyop’yā”
    “People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia”
    “Socialist Ethiopia”
    “Ye’ Etiyop’iya Niguse Negast Mengist”
    “ኢትዮጵያ / Ethiopia”
  • Languages
    Amharic
    English
    Oromo
    Tigrinya
    Somali
    Sidamo
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    landlocked country
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
9° north
Longitude of center
39.7° or 39° 42′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2163914205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
337996
Wiki­data ID
Q115

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Ethiopia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Афедератив-демократиатә Республика Ефиопиа”
  • Abkhazian: “Ефиопиа”
  • Achinese: “Ethiopia”
  • Adyghe: “Эфиопие”
  • Afar: “Otobbia”
  • Afrikaans: “Ethiopië”
  • Akan: “Ithiopia”
  • Albanian: “Etiopi”
  • Albanian: “Etiopia”
  • Amharic: “Ītyop’iya”
  • Amharic: “YeĪtyop’iya Fēdēralawī Dēmokrasīyawī Rīpeblīk”
  • Amharic: “YeĪtyop’iya Hizbawī Dīmokrasīyawī Rīpublīk”
  • Amharic: “ኢትዮጵያ”
  • Amharic: “የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ”
  • Amis: “Ethiopia”
  • Angika: “इथियोपिया”
  • Arabic: “اثيوبيا”
  • Arabic: “الجمهورية الفدرالية الديمقراطية لإثيوبيا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية إثيوبيا الفيدرالية الديمقراطية”
  • Aragonese: “Etiopia”
  • Armenian: “Եթովպիա”
  • Armenian: “Հաբեշստան”
  • Arpitan: “Ètiopia”
  • Arpitan: “Ètiopie”
  • Assamese: “ইথিঅ’পিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Etiopía”
  • Atayal: “Ethiopia”
  • Avaric: “Хабашистан”
  • Avaric: “ХӀабаши”
  • Aymara: “Itiwpiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Efiopiya”
  • Balinese: “Éthiopia”
  • Bambara: “Etiopi”
  • Bambara: “Etiopia”
  • Banjar: “Ethiopia”
  • Bashkir: “Эфиопия”
  • Basque: “Etiopia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Ethiopia”
  • Batak Toba: “Etiopia”
  • Bavarian: “Ethiopien”
  • Belarusian: “Этыёпія”
  • Belarusian: “Эфіёпія”
  • Belarusian: “Эфіопія”
  • Bengali: “ইথিওপিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ইফিওপিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Habsi”
  • Bhojpuri: “इथिओपिआ”
  • Bhojpuri: “इथिओपिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “इथियोपिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “एथियोपिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইথিওপিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Itiopia”
  • Bosnian: “Etiopija”
  • Breton: “Etiopia”
  • Bulgarian: “Етиопия”
  • Burmese: “အီသီယိုးပီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အီသီယိုးပီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Abissínia”
  • Catalan: “Etiòpia”
  • Catalan: “Imperi abissini”
  • Catalan: “República Democràtica Federal d’Etiòpia”
  • Cebuano: “Etiopia”
  • Cebuano: “Etyopiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Etyopya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Ethiopia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیتیۆپیا”
  • Chavacano: “Etiopía”
  • Chechen: “Эфиопи”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏗᎣᏈᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Āisàiébǐyà”
  • Chinese: “埃塞俄比亚 / 衣索比亞”
  • Chinese: “埃塞俄比亚”
  • Chinese: “埃塞俄比亚联邦民主共和国”
  • Chinese: “埃塞俄比亞”
  • Chinese: “埃塞俄比亞聯邦民主共和國”
  • Chinese: “衣索比亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Єѳїопїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Эфиопи”
  • Cornish: “Ethiopi”
  • Corsican: “Etiopia”
  • Corsican: “Ettiopia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Abeşistan”
  • Croatian: “Etiopija”
  • Czech: “Etiopie”
  • Czech: “Etiopská federativní demokratická republika”
  • Czech: “Habeš”
  • Dagbani: “Ethiopia”
  • Danish: “Etiopien”
  • Dhivehi: “ޙަބުޝްކަރަ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Etyopya”
  • Dinka: “Ethiopia”
  • Dotyali: “इथियोपिया”
  • Dutch: “Ethiopië”
  • Dutch: “Federale Democratische Republiek Ethiopië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨི་ཐི་ཡོ་པི་ཡ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эфиопий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اثيوبيا”
  • Erzya: “Эфиопия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “et”
  • Esperanto: “Etiopio”
  • Esperanto: “Etiopujo”
  • Esperanto: “Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Etiopio”
  • Estonian: “Etioopia Demokraatlik Liitvabariik”
  • Estonian: “Etioopia”
  • Ewe: “Etiopia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Etiopia”
  • Extremaduran: “Etiopia”
  • Farefare: “Ethiopia”
  • Faroese: “Etiopia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ethiopia”
  • Finnish: “Etiopia”
  • Finnish: “Etiopian demokraattinen liittotasavalta”
  • French: “Éthiopie”
  • French: “la République démocratique fédérale d’Éthiopie”
  • French: “République fédérale démocratique d’Éthiopie”
  • Fulah: “Ecoppi”
  • Gagauz: “Efiopiya”
  • Gagauz: “Etiyopiya”
  • Galician: “Etiopía”
  • Galician: “República Democrática Federal de Etiopía”
  • Gan Chinese: “埃塞俄比亞”
  • Ganda: “Esyopya”
  • Ganda: “Ethiopia”
  • Georgian: “ეთიოპია”
  • German: “Äthiopien”
  • German: “Demokratische Bundesrepublik Äthiopien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ethiopia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia”
  • Gilaki: “اتیۊپي”
  • Goan Konkani: “इथिओपिया”
  • Goan Konkani: “इथियोपिया”
  • Greek: “Αιθιοπία”
  • Greek: “Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Αιθιοπίας”
  • Guarani: “Etiopía”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Létchopi”
  • Gujarati: “ઇથિઓપિયા”
  • Gujarati: “ઇથિયોપિયા”
  • Haitian: “Etyopi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ethiopia”
  • Hausa: “Habasha”
  • Hausa: “Isofiya”
  • Hausa: “Itofiya”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Aikiopia”
  • Hebrew: “אתיופיה”
  • Hebrew: “חבש”
  • Hindi: “इथियोपिया”
  • Hindi: “इथोपिया”
  • Hungarian: “Etióp Szövetségi Demokratikus Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Etiópia”
  • Iban: “Etiopia”
  • Icelandic: “Eþíópía”
  • Ido: “Etiopia”
  • Igbo: “Ethiopia”
  • Iloko: “Etiopia”
  • Iloko: “Etyopia”
  • Inari Sami: “Etiopia demokraatlâš littotäsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Etiopia”
  • Indonesian: “Ethiopia”
  • Indonesian: “Etiopia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Demokratik Federal Etiopia”
  • Ingush: “ХӀабиш”
  • Ingush: “Эфиопи”
  • Interlingua: “Ethiopia”
  • Interlingue: “Etiopia”
  • Irish: “An Aetóip”
  • Italian: “Etiopia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Federale Democratica d’Etiopia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Iityuopia”
  • Japanese: “エチオピア”
  • Japanese: “エチオピア連邦民主共和国”
  • Japanese: “エティオピア”
  • Japanese: “哀提伯”
  • Javanese: “Éteopiah”
  • Javanese: “Éthiopia”
  • Javanese: “Étiopia”
  • Jju: “Ityopya”
  • Kabiyè: “Etiyoopii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Etiópia”
  • Kabyle: “Ityupya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ethiopia”
  • Kalmyk: “Эпигопин Ниицән”
  • Kannada: “ಇತಿಯೋಪಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಇಥಿಯೋಪಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Efiopiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эфиопия”
  • Karekare: “Habasha”
  • Kashmiri: “اِتھوپِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Etiopiô”
  • Kazakh: “Ефиопия”
  • Kazakh: “Эфиопия”
  • Khmer: “អេត្យូពី”
  • Kikuyu: “Ethiopia”
  • Kikuyu: “Uhabeshi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Etiyopiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Эфиопия”
  • Komering: “Ethiopia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Итьоппья”
  • Komi: “Эфиопия”
  • Kongo: “Itiopia”
  • Korean: “에티오피아”
  • Korean: “이디오피아”
  • Kotava: “Ityopia”
  • Kurdish: “Etiyopya”
  • Ladin: “Etiopia”
  • Ladino: “Etiopia”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເອທິໂອປີ”
  • Lao: “ອີທິໂອເປຍ”
  • Latin: “Aethiopia”
  • Latvian: “Etiopija”
  • Lezghian: “Эфиопия”
  • Ligurian: “Etiòpia”
  • Limburgan: “Ethiopië”
  • Lingala: “Etiopi”
  • Lingala: “Etsíopi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Itiopia”
  • Literary Chinese: “衣索比亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Etiopija”
  • Livvi: “Efiopii”
  • Lojban: “itiopias”
  • Lombard: “Etiopia”
  • Low German: “Äthiopien”
  • Low German: “Etiopie”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Etiopiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Etshiopi”
  • Lule Sami: “Etiåvppå”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ethiopien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ethiopia”
  • Macedonian: “Абисинија”
  • Macedonian: “Етиопија”
  • Macedonian: “Сојузна Демократска Република Етиопија”
  • Madurese: “Ethiopia”
  • Magahi: “इथियोपिया”
  • Maithili: “इथियोपिया”
  • Malagasy: “Ethiopia”
  • Malagasy: “Etiôpia”
  • Malay: “Ethiopia”
  • Malay: “Habsyah”
  • Malayalam: “എത്യോപ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Etjopja”
  • Maltese: “l-Etjopja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Demokratika Federali tal-Etjopja”
  • Manchu: “ᡝ ᡩᡳ ᠶᠣ ᠪᡳ ᠶᠠ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯊꯤꯌꯣꯄꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “ET”
  • Manx: “ETH”
  • Manx: “Ethiopia”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght Gheynlagh Chonastagh yn Eetoip”
  • Manx: “Yn Eetoip”
  • Manx: “yn Ethiopia”
  • Maori: “Etiopia”
  • Marathi: “इथिओपिया”
  • Marathi: “इथियोपिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اتیوپی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ethiopia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ethiopia”
  • Minangkabau: “Ethiopia”
  • Mingrelian: “ეთიოპია”
  • Mirandese: “Etiópia”
  • Moksha: “Этиопия”
  • Mon: “အဳသဳအဝ်ပဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Этиоп”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إتيوپيا”
  • Mossi: “ET”
  • Mossi: “ETH”
  • Mossi: “Ethiopia”
  • N'Ko: “ߋߗߏߔߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Itiyopiya”
  • Navajo: “Tsinbijeeh Dazhdiłidii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Etiopie”
  • Nepali: “इथियोपिया”
  • Newari: “इथियोपिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Ethiopia”
  • North Ndebele: “Ethiopia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Etioopien”
  • Northern Luri: “اتیوپی”
  • Northern Sami: “Etiopia demokráhtalaš lihttodásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Etiopia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den føderale demokratiske republikken Etiopia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Etiopia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Etiopia”
  • Norwegian: “Etiopia”
  • Novial: “Etiopia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Ethiopia”
  • Obolo: “Etiopia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Etiopia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܫ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æthiopia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sigelhearwenaland”
  • Oriya: “ଇଥିଓପିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Itoophiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Эфиопи”
  • Paiwan: “Isubya”
  • Pali: “ईथ्योपिया”
  • Pampanga: “Ethiopia”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਥੋਪੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Ethiopia”
  • Papiamento: “Etiopia”
  • Pedi: “Ethiopia”
  • Persian: “اتیوپی”
  • Persian: “اتیوپیا”
  • Piemontese: “Etiòpia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ethiopia”
  • Polish: “Etiopia”
  • Portuguese: “Etiópia”
  • Portuguese: “República Democrática Federal da Etiópia”
  • Pushto: “ایتوپیا”
  • Pushto: “اېتوپيا”
  • Pushto: “اېتوپیا”
  • Pushto: “حبشه”
  • Quechua: “Etiopía”
  • Quechua: “Ithiyupya”
  • Romanian: “Etiopia”
  • Romansh: “Etiopia”
  • Rundi: “Etiyopiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Этиоп”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эфиопи”
  • Russian: “Абессиния”
  • Russian: “Абиссиния”
  • Russian: “Федеративная Демократическая Республика Эфиопия”
  • Russian: “Эфиопия”
  • Rusyn: “Етіопія”
  • Sakizaya: “Ethiopia”
  • Samoan: “Aitiope”
  • Samoan: “Ethiopia”
  • Samogitian: “Etiuopėjė”
  • Sango: “Etiopïi”
  • Sanskrit: “ईथ्योपिया”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱛᱷᱤᱭᱳᱯᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Etiòpia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Äthiopien”
  • Scots: “Ethiopie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Aetiòp”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Itiop”
  • Serbian: “Etiopija”
  • Serbian: “Абисинија”
  • Serbian: “Етиопија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Etiopija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢီႇတီႇယူဝ်းပီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Ethiopia”
  • Shona: “Etiopia”
  • Shona: “Itopiya”
  • Sicilian: “Etiopia”
  • Silesian: “Etjopijo”
  • Sindhi: “ايٿوپيا”
  • Sinhala: “ඉතියෝපියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Etiopia demokraattlaž lett-tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Etiopia”
  • Slovak: “Abesínia”
  • Slovak: “Etiópia”
  • Slovak: “Etiópska federatívna demokratická republika”
  • Slovenian: “Etiopija”
  • Slovenian: “Federativna demokratična republika Etiopija”
  • Somali: “Itoobbiya”
  • Somali: “Itoobiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اتیوپی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Ethiopia”
  • Spanish: “Asamblea Parlamentaria Federal”
  • Spanish: “Etiopía”
  • Spanish: “República Democrática Federal de Etiopía”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Ethiopikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵜⵢⵓⴱⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Éthiopia”
  • Sundanese: “Étiopia”
  • Swahili: “Ethiopia”
  • Swahili: “Uhabeshi”
  • Swati: “ITopiya”
  • Swedish: “Demokratiska förbundsrepubliken Etiopien”
  • Swedish: “Etiopien”
  • Swedish: “Federala demokratiska republiken Etiopien”
  • Swiss German: “Äthiopien”
  • Swiss German: “Ethiopie”
  • Tachelhit: “Ityubya”
  • Tagalog: “Ethiopia”
  • Tahitian: “Etiopi”
  • Tajik: “Эфиопия”
  • Talysh: “Efiopijə”
  • Talysh: “Efiyopiyə”
  • Tamil: “எதியோப்பியா”
  • Tamil: “எத்தியோப்பியா”
  • Taroko: “Ethiopia”
  • Tatar: “Хәбәшстан”
  • Tatar: “Эфиопия”
  • Telugu: “ఇథియోపియా”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเอธิโอเปีย”
  • Thai: “เอธิโอเปีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཐི་ཨོ་པི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཐིའོ་པི་ཡ།”
  • Tigre: “እቶፔያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኢትዮጵያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ፈደራላዊት ደሞክራስያዊት ሪፓብሊክ ኢትዮጵያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻĪtiōpia”
  • Tsonga: “Topiya”
  • Tswana: “Ethiopia”
  • Tumbuka: “Ethiopia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أثيوبيا”
  • Turkish: “Etiyopya”
  • Turkmen: “Efiopiýa”
  • Twi: “Ethiopia”
  • Tyap: “Ityopya”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Di̱mokrasi Mundundung Ityopya”
  • Udmurt: “Эфиопия”
  • Uighur: “ئېفىيوپىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Ефіопія”
  • Ukrainian: “Федеративна Демократична Республіка Ефіопія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Etiopiska”
  • Urdu: “ایتھوپیا”
  • Uzbek: “Efiopiya”
  • Venetian: “Etiòpia”
  • Veps: “Efiopii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Dân chủ Liên bang Ethiopia”
  • Vietnamese: “Ê-ti-ô-pi-a (Ethiopia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ê-ti-ô-pi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Ethiopia”
  • Vlaams: “Ethiopië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ethiopia”
  • Volapük: “Lätiopän”
  • Võro: “Etioopia”
  • Walloon: “Etiopeye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Etiopia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Etiyopya”
  • Welsh: “Ethiopia”
  • Western Armenian: “Ապիսինիա” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Եթովպիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Հապէշաստան” (historical)
  • Western Frisian: “Ethiopië”
  • Western Frisian: “Etioopje”
  • Western Mari: “Эфиопи”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایتھوپیا”
  • Wolaytta: “Toophphiya”
  • Wolof: “Ecoopi”
  • Wolof: “Ecopi”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃塞俄比亞”
  • Xhosa: “ITopiya”
  • Yakut: “Этиопия”
  • Yiddish: “עטיאפּיע”
  • Yoruba: “Ethiópíà”
  • Yoruba: “Etopia”
  • Yue Chinese: “埃塞俄比亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Ethiopië”
  • Zhuang: “Ethiopia”
  • Zulu: “i-Ethiopia”
  • Zulu: “I-Ithiopia”
  • Zulu: “I-Itiyopiya”
  • “ma Isijopija”
  • “ma Itejopija”

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