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Ethiopia

Ethiopia : Ethiopia is a country in East Africa with 78 million inhabitants. Neighboring countries are Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. The landscape of Ethiopia is largely determined by the Ethiopian highlands, divided by the Great Rift Valley. In the north lies the central massif of Abyssinia. In the west are the lowlands. Furthermore, the high plateau of Choa, rocks, savannahs, the Danakil desert, steep massifs and deep valleys, table mountains and volcanoes, the Tana lake and the river Nile. There is a tropical monsoon climate. The capital Addis Ababa has 3 million inhabitants. Sights are the national museum, the mausoleum of Menelik II, Selassie Cathedral, the church of Entoto, the St. George Church, the Church Raphael, the archaeological museum and ethnological museum. Other major cities are Dire Dawa, Asayita, Bahir Dar, Asosa, Gambella, Harar, Adama or Nazret, Jijiga, Awasa and Mek'ele. At the World Heritage list of UNESCO are the rock churches of Lalibela, the Simien national park, Fasil Ghebbi in the Gondar region, the towns of Axum and Harar Tiya and the valleys of the lower reaches of the Awash and the Omo.

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