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Ethiopia

Ethiopia Notes

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Ethiopia The Horn of Africa nation clued as the world's most populous landlocked country; home to the Blue Nile source.
Addis Ababa The capital city of Ethiopia, located in the Entoto Mountains; serves as the headquarters of the African Union.
Grand Renaissance Dam The massive hydroelectric project built on the Blue Nile near Sudan, sparking deep downstream water disputes.
Blue Nile The major river that originates at Ethiopia's Lake Tana and flows west to merge with the White Nile in Sudan.
Lake Tana The largest freshwater lake in Ethiopia, located in the northwestern highlands; acts as the source of the Blue Nile.
Danakil Depression The hyper-arid basin in the Afar Triangle containing Dallol, famous as one of the hottest places on Earth.
Great Rift Valley The tectonic trench bisecting Ethiopia, which contains the Afar Triple Junction and numerous endorheic basins.
Ogaden Region The semi-arid southeastern plateau inhabited by ethnic Somalis; site of a major 1977–1978 border war.
Amhara The highland Christian ethnic group whose Semitic language serves as the primary working lingua franca of Ethiopia.
Oromia The largest and most populous regional state (kilil) in Ethiopia, completely surrounding the city of Addis Ababa.
Dire Dawa One of Ethiopia's two chartered cities, bordering Oromia; its name means 'plain of medicine' in Old Harari.
Lucy The famous 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered along the Awash riverbeds in the Afar region.
Injera The spongy, sourdough flatbread made from native teff grain that serves as the base of Ethiopian cuisine.
Coffee The caffeinated beverage plant discovered by the herder Kaldi; it originally grew wild in the Sidamo highlands.
Eritrea The nation whose 1993 independence from Ethiopia cut off the country's sovereign access to the Red Sea coastline.
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