Ethiopia
Ethiopia Ethiopia / a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa, and its capital is Addis Ababa. It is the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria and the tenth by area. It is bordered on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the north by the state of Eritrea, on the northwest by Sudan, on the west by South Sudan and southwest by Kenya The largest part of Ethiopia lies on the Horn of Africa, which is the eastern part of the African mainland. On the borders with Ethiopia are Sudan and South Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Eritrea to the north, Somalia to the east, and Kenya to the south. Within Ethiopia is a vast highland complex of mountains and dissected plateaus divided by the Great Rift Valley, which usually extends northeast to southwest and is surrounded by lowlands, steppes, or semi-desert. The great diversity in terrain determines wide variations in climate, soil, natural vegetation, and settlement patterns Ethiopia is an ecologically diverse country, ran...