Ethiopia

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The General Knowledge book series, are designed for specific country, are one of the most admired book for the Knowledge improvement and learning purpose.This book contains an information about Background,Geography,Natural resources,Land use,Environment. Population,Sex ratio,flag of the county,Area,Border countries,Maritime claims,Elevation extremes,Land use,Natural hazards,Volcanism,Age structure,Median age,Net migration rate,Country comparison to the world,Religions,Languages,Literacy,School life expectancy ,Government,Time difference,Administrative divisions,Executive branch,Cabinet and almost everthing related with general knowledge.

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• Publié par: Zhimgoora Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781300292241
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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Ethiopia

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Ethiopia (Africa)

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Introduction ::Ethiopia

Background:

Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy

maintained its freedom from colonial rule with the exception of a

short-lived Italian occupation from 1936-41. In 1974, a military

junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled

since 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups,

uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problems, the

regime was finally toppled in 1991 by a coalition of rebel forces,

the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). A

constitution was adopted in 1994, and Ethiopia's first multiparty

elections were held in 1995. A border war with Eritrea late in the

1990s ended with a peace treaty in December 2000. In November

2007, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission remotely

demarcated the border by geographical coordinates, but final

demarcation of the boundary on the ground is currently on hold

because of Ethiopian objections to an international commission's

finding requiring it to surrender territory considered sensitive to Ethiopia.

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Geography ::Ethiopia

Location: Eastern Africa, west of Somalia

Geographic coordinates: 8 00 N, 38 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:

Total: 1,104,300 sq km

Country comparison to the world: 27

Land: 1 million sq km

Water: 104,300 sq km

Area - comparative: Slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries:

Total: 5,328 km

Border countries: Djibouti 349 km, Eritrea 912 km, Kenya 861 km,

Somalia 1,600 km, Sudan 1,606 km

Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

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Maritime claims: none (landlocked)

Climate: Tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation

Terrain: High plateau with central mountain range divided by

Great Rift Valley

Elevation extremes:

Lowest point: Danakil Depression -125 m

Highest point: Ras Dejen 4,533 m

Natural resources: Small reserves of gold, platinum, copper, potash,

natural gas, hydropower

Land use:

Arable land: 10.01%

Permanent crops: 0.65%

Other: 89.34% (2005)

Irrigated land: 2,900 sq km (2003)

Total renewable water resources: 110 cu km (1987)

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Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

Total: 5.56 cu km/yr (6%/0%/94%)

Per capita: 72 cu m/yr (2002)

Natural hazards: Geologically active Great Rift Valley susceptible to

earthquakes, volcanic eruptions; frequent droughts

Volcanism: Ethiopia experiences volcanic activity in the Great Rift

Valley; Erta Ale (elev. 613 m, 2,011 ft), which has caused frequent

lava flows in recent years, is the country's most active volcano;

Dabbahu became active in 2005, causing evacuations; other

historically active volcanoes include Alayta, Dalaffilla, Dallol, Dama

Ali, Fentale, Kone, Manda Hararo, and Manda-Inakir

Environment - current issues: Deforestation; overgrazing; soil

erosion; desertification; water shortages in some areas from water-

intensive farming and poor management

Environment - international agreements:

Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto

Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes,

Ozone Layer Protection

Signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea

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Geography - note: 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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People ::Ethiopia

Population: 88,013,491

Country comparison to the world: 14

Note: Estimates for this country explicitly take into account the

effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life

expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower

population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of

population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 46.1% (male 19,596,784/female 19,688,887)

15-64 years: 51.2% (male 21,376,495/female 22,304,812)

65 years and over: 2.7% (male 975,923/female 1,294,437) (2010 est.)

Median age:

Total: 16.8 years

Male: 16.5 years

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Female: 17.2 years (2010 est.)

Population growth rate: 3.202% (2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 7

Birth rate: 43.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 6

Death rate: 11.29 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 38

Net migration rate: -0.02 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Country comparison to the world: 119

Note: Repatriation of Ethiopian refugees residing in Sudan is

expected to continue for several years; some Sudanese, Somali, and

Eritrean refugees, who fled to Ethiopia from the fighting or famine

in their own countries, continue to return to their homes (2010 est.)

Urbanization:

Urban population: 17% of total population (2008)

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