About Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a country in East Africa, one of the 54 countries of Africa on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. In Arabic, the name is written إثيوبيا, and the capital أديس أبابا. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres.
The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa lies at about 9° north and 39° east. The official language of Ethiopia is Amharic. Its currency is the Ethiopian Birr, with the symbol Br and the international code ETB.
Ethiopia covers about 1,104,300 square kilometres, which puts it 26th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It is landlocked, with no coastline, and has 6 neighbours: Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Eritrea, and Djibouti. The largest of these neighbours by area is Sudan. Other countries in East Africa include Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Africa quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Ethiopia with the other countries of the same region.