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Blue Nile. The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately 1,450??km (900??mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.

River river Africa Ethiopia Sudan

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African Great Lakes. The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth; Lake Malawi, the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake by volume; and Lake Turkana, the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. Collectively, they contain 31,000??km3 (7,400??mi3) of water, which is more than either Lake Baikal or the North American Great Lakes. This total constitutes about 25% of the planet's unfrozen surface fresh water. The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region.

Lake Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Kenya Malawi Mozambique Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Zambia

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National Bank of Ethiopia. The National Bank of Ethiopia is the central bank of Ethiopia. Its headquarters are in the capital city of Addis Ababa. Eyob Tekalign has been the current governor of the bank since 2025.

org_gdb_Organization Ethiopia

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Italian. Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and, together with Sardinian, is the least differentiated language from Latin. Current estimates indicate that between 68 and 85 million people speak Italian, including approximately 64 million native speakers as of 2024.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Albania Croatia Eritrea Ethiopia Greece Italy Libya San Marino Slovenia Somalia Switzerland Vatican City

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Somali. Somali is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. Somali is spoken primarily in Greater Somalia, and the Somali diaspora as a mother tongue. It is an official language in Somalia and Ethiopia, and serves as a national language in Djibouti. It is also a recognised minority language in Kenya. The language is officially written with the Latin alphabet, although the Arabic script and several Somali scripts like Osmanya, Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used.

modern_language natural_language xxx_gdb_Language Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya Somalia Somaliland

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Adanech Abebe. Adanech Abiebie is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the thirty-second mayor of Addis Ababa since 2021. She served as deputy mayor from 2020 until 2021. She previously was the Minister of Revenue and Customs Authority from 2018 to 2020, when she became the first female to assume the role of the Federal Attorney General of Ethiopia. She is the first woman to hold the mayorship since it was created in 1910.

ppl_schema_Person Ethiopia

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Ras Dashen. Ras Dashen is the highest mountain in Ethiopia. Located in the Simien Mountains National Park in the North Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, it reaches an elevation of 4,550 metres (14,930??ft).

Mountain Ethiopia

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Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It has been the capital of the regional state Oromia under FDRE Constitution Article 49(5). With an estimated population of 2,739,551 inhabitants as of the 2007 census, it is the eleventh-largest city in Africa. At an elevation of 2,355 metres (7,726??ft), it is the fourth highest capital city in the world and the highest capital in Africa. Addis Ababa is a highly developed and important cultural, artistic, financial and administrative center of Ethiopia.

City city Ethiopia

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.et. .et is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Ethiopia. Ethio Telecom offer top-levels domains as second- and third-level domains.

country_code_top_level_domain tld_gdb_TopLevelDomain Ethiopia

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Abiy Ahmed. Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018 and the leader of the Prosperity Party since 2019.

ppl_schema_Person Ethiopia

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Taye Atske Selassie. Taye Atske Selassie Amde is an Ethiopian diplomat and politician who is the President of Ethiopia since 2024. Prior to his presidency, he served in multiple diplomatic roles, including ambassador to Egypt and Permanent representative to the United Nations, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

ppl_schema_Person Ethiopia

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Asmara. Asmara, or Asmera, is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of 2,325 metres (7,628??ft), making it the sixth highest capital in the world by altitude and the second highest capital in Africa. The city is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean Highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia. In 2017, the city was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved Italian modernist architecture. According to local traditions, the city was founded after four separate villages unified to live together peacefully after long periods of conflict. Asmara existed as a major settlement for over half a millennium and enjoyed some importance as it stood on the trade route to Massawa. Asmara first rose to prominence during the 20th century, when it became capital of Italian Eritrea. Under Italian rule the city of Asmara experienced rapid urbanization and modernization, to the point th

big_city City city Eritrea Ethiopia

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Amharic. Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populations in Ethiopia.

modern_language xxx_gdb_Language Eritrea Ethiopia Israel Somalia Sudan

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Somaliland. Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is a partially recognised state in the Horn of Africa. It is located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south and west, and Somalia to the east. Its claimed territory has an area of 176,120 square kilometres (68,000??sq??mi), with approximately 6.2??million people as of 2024. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa.

Country country republic Africa Djibouti Ethiopia Somalia

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Nile. The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeast Africa which empties into the Mediterranean Sea. At 7,088 kilometers (4,404??mi) long, it is the longest river in the world, although the volume of water it carries is much smaller than other major rivers such as the Amazon or the Congo. The Nile has played a central role in the environmental, economic, and cultural history of Africa for millennia.

River Africa Burundi Egypt Ethiopia Rwanda South Sudan Sudan Uganda

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Mousa Ali. Mousa Ali is a 2,021 metres (6,631??ft) stratovolcano located on the tri-point of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The volcano is the highest point in Djibouti. The volcano's summit is truncated by a caldera, which contains rhyolitic lava domes and lava flows. The last known eruption occurred before the Holocene epoch.

Mountain Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia

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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa was established in 1958 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to encourage economic cooperation among its member states following a recommendation of the United Nations General Assembly. It is one of five regional commissions.

org_gdb_Organization Ethiopia

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League of Arab States. The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and North Yemen. Currently, the League has 22 members.

international_organization org_gdb_Organization Africa Asia Central African Republic Chad Eritrea Ethiopia Iran Kenya Mali Niger Senegal South Sudan Spain Turkey

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Tigrinya. Tigrinya, sometimes romanized according to Italian spelling rules as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily spoken by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples, native to Eritrea and to the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, respectively. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.

xxx_gdb_Language Eritrea Ethiopia

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English. English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain after the end of Roman rule. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire and the United States. It is the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

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bir. The birr is the primary unit of currency in Ethiopia. It is subdivided into 100 santims.

finst_gdb_Currency Ethiopia Business

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South Sudan. South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Central African Republic to the west. South Sudan's diverse landscape includes vast plains and plateaus, dry and tropical savannahs, inland floodplains, and forested mountains. The Nile River system is the defining physical feature of the country, running south to north across its center, which is dominated by a large swamp known as the Sudd. South Sudan has an estimated population of just over 12.7??million in 2024. Juba is the capital and largest city.

Country Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Kenya South Sudan

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Sudan. Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 51.8 million people as of 2025 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres, making it Africa's third-largest country by area. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum.

Country Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Libya South Sudan Sudan

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Somalia. Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. Stretching across the Horn of Africa, it borders Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. Somalia has an estimated population of more than 18 million, of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. As one of Africa's most ethnically homogenous countries, around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis. The official and national language of the country is Somali while Arabic is recognised as a second language. The overwhelming majority of the population are Sunni Muslims.

Country Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya Somalia

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