Bete Giyorgis, Lalibela — Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Country overview
Ethiopia
ኢትዮጵያ
A high-altitude nation in the Horn of Africa with one of the world's longest continuous histories of statehood — the only African country never brought under sustained colonial rule. Home to the source of the Blue Nile, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and its own calendar, clock, and script.
By the numbers
- Capital
- Addis Ababa
- Population
- 138,900,000+
- Area
- 1,111,237 km²
- Administrative structure
- 12 regional states, 2 chartered cities
- Government
- Federal parliamentary republic
- Working federal language
- Amharic — plus official status for several regional languages
- Currency
- Ethiopian birr (ETB)
- Calendar
- Ethiopian calendar — currently year 2018, roughly 7–8 years behind the Gregorian calendar
2026 estimate
sum of all 14 regions/chartered cities in this registry
This registry so far
28
politicians tracked
8
public figures tracked
102
zones
1,119
woredas
Population figure and general facts are widely cited estimates; area is computed directly from this registry's own OCHA-sourced regional data.