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landlocked - 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

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Ethiopia
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Capital:Addis Ababa
Currency:birr (ETB)
Languages:Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools)
Population:67,851,281
Area:1,127,127
Heritage
Major heritage sites include:
  • Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
  • Simien National Park
  • Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
  • Aksum
  • Lower Valley of the Awash
  • Lower Valley of the Omo
  • Tiya
See the UNESCO website for more details
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Addis Ababa
Once almost deserted until the introduction of eucalytpus to provide fuel, now an urban sprawl. The Ethnographic Museum is home to the 3.5 million year old skeleton of Lucy.
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Path to the summit of Mount Zequalla (Zikwala), a major Ethiopian pilgrimage site.


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Pilgrims walking along the narrow stone walkway into the St. George Church in Lalibela, Ethiopia


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Pilgrims walking along the narrow stone walkway into the St. George Church in Lalbela, Ethiopia


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Sisters at a church in Gonder


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Children that surrounded the bus when it stopped on the Gongora - Gonder road (Ethiopia)


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Pilgrims seen from the bus on the way from Gonder to Gorgora, Ethiopia


Brother and sister in Lalibela, Ethiopia
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