Ethiopia flag information
Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow and red with a yellow pentagram and single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points on a light blue disk centered on the three bands; Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, and the three main colors of her flag were so often adopted by other African countries upon independence that they became known as the pan-African colors. .
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Additional information about Ethiopia
Official country name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Short name: Ethiopia
Local names (long and short forms): Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik / Ityop'iya
Former name: Abyssinia, Italian East Africa
Abbreviation: FDRE
Notes:
Nationality noun / adjective: Ethiopian(s) / Ethiopian
Languages spoken: Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census). .
Capital: Addis Ababa (GMT 3.0, summertime: )
Government type: federal republic
Population: 82544840 ranked 16, (data 2008)
Geography: entire coastline along the Red Sea was lost with the de jure independence of Eritrea on 24 May 1993; the Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in T'ana Hayk (Lake Tana) in northwest Ethiopia; three major crops are believed to have originated in Ethiopia: coffee, grain sorghum, and castor bean. The lowest point is Danakil Depression -125 m and the highest point is Ras Dejen 4,533 m. .
Coastline: Coastline km - landlocked. .
Land borders: Ethiopia has a total of 5328 km landborders, bordering to Djibouti 349 km, Eritrea 912 km, Kenya 861 km, Somalia 1,600 km, Sudan 1,606 km. . .
Administrative divisions: 9 ethnically based states (kililoch, singular - kilil) and 2 self-governing administrations* (astedaderoch, singular - astedader); Adis Abeba* (Addis Ababa), Afar, Amara (Amhara), Binshangul Gumuz, Dire Dawa*, Gambela Hizboch (Gambela Peoples), Hareri Hizb (Harari People), Oromiya (Oromia), Sumale (Somali), Tigray, Ye Debub Biheroch Bihereseboch na Hizboch (Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples)
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Independence: oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years