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Ethiopia: map and facts
Ethiopia is in Eastern Africa. It has about 135 million people (2025), the 10th largest population. It covers 1,129,819 km², the 26th largest by area. That is about 120 people per km². Its highest point is Ras Dejen, at 4,533 m. The longest river on its map is the Blue Nile, 1,450 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 135,472,051 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 1,129,819 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Addis Ababa
- Highest point: Ras Dejen, 4,533 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 23.8% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Ethiopia, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Blue Nile: 1,450 km
- Awash: 1,200 km
- Omo: 760 km
- Setit: 608 km
- Akobo: 434 km
Also on the map: Genale and Shebelle.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Ras Dejen: 4,533 m (its highest point)
- Mount Batu: 4,307 m
- Amba Farit: 4,270 m
- Gugu: 3,626 m
- Gara Muleta: 3,405 m
- Moussa Ali: 2,028 m
Mountain ranges: Ethiopian Highlands and Ahmar Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Somali Peninsula, Great Rift Valley, Ogaden and Danakil Desert.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 46.8%, savanna 17.2%, farmland 13%, open shrubland 11.2%, bare ground 3.9%, evergreen broadleaf forest 2.5%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 36%, plateaus 29.2%, mountains 28.3%, high mountains 4.6%, plains 1.9%.
Forests covered 23.8% of its land in 2024, down from 28.2% in 1995 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Ethiopia shares land borders with Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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