Ethiopia (in East Africa )
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Ethiopia
is a country with varied climate, arable land, potential natural resources, large number of population,
color full culture, religions, legends, etc
It has an area of 1,106,100 square kilometers.
Ethiopia is in the northern hemisphere and
completely in eastern from longitude. Ethiopia is a country with most
area plateau/ mountains.
Geologically, the Danakil depression is the lowest part of Ethiopia (116
meters below sea level) and the highest peak is Ras Dashen (4620 meters
above sea level).
Ethiopia has many rivers; one of the rivers, Blue Nile is the longest
river in the world.
The largest lake in the country is Lake Tana to the north of the country
and it is high land lake.
Ethiopian rift valley is part of great East African rift valley system,
encompasses some 6 lakes in the southern part of the country which are
habitats of birds, mammals/marine life, like hippos and crocodiles. In
the south part of the country, above 45% of the Ethiopian’s ethnic groups
live. Their culture; the Mursi with their clay plates, the Hammer for
their bull jumping ceremony, the Karo for their body adornment etc. are
our out door museums