Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of 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.
The Capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.
The official language is Amharic.
Girma Wolde-Giorgis was the President of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013. From 10.7.13 to 10.25.18, Mulatu Teshome was the president. On 10.25.18 Sahle-Work Zewde was elected as president; the first woman to hold the office.
According to the 2007 National Census, Christians make up 62.8% of the country's population (43.5% Ethiopian Orthodox, 19.3% other denominations), Muslims 33.9%, practitioners of traditional faiths 2.6%, and other religions 0.6%. This is in agreement with the CIA World Factbook, which states that Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Emperor rastafarian, Haile Selassie, is widely considered a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history, and the key figure of Rastafari, a religious movement in Jamaica that emerged shortly after he became emperor in the 1930s.
The Country profile , the CIA Factbook, and the history.
