Facts About Ethiopian Culture|Ethiopia Food| Ethiopia Capital & Population|Ethiopian People & Lifestyle|Ethiopia Religion|
Ethiopia is one of the Nation in the North-East part of Africa Continent. It is also called as 'The Horn of Africa'. The official name of this Nation is Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The official language of Ethiopia is Amharic, Besides many other languages such as Oromo, Harari, Afar are also used. The primary religion followed by more than 60% of Ethiopia population is Christianity and secondary Islam religion is followed by over 30% if the population. Addis Ababa is the largest and capital city of Ethiopia. The population of Ethiopia is more than 11 crores. The official currency of Ethiopia is Birr. The Nation Flag of Ethiopia features three horizontal strips of green, yellow and red with the nation emblem at the center.
Facts about Ethiopia
➤ Ethiopian wolf is one of the rarest and endangered species with only 500 remaining in the wild.➤ The Nation of Ethiopia was founded in 980 BC. It is one of the Worlds oldest Nation. Damot Kingdom was located here in 5 centuries BC.
➤ Ethiopia is the second largest populated country in Africa Continent.
➤ Unlike our regular calendars the Ethiopian calendar's have 13 months. Due to this they are 8 years behind from other countries that are using 12 months calendar.
➤ Although its illegal but early age marriages are common practices in Ethiopia.
➤ Ethiopia is on its way to become the worlds top flowers and plant exporter. The floriculture is nourishing rapidly.
➤ The remains or pieces one of the oldest fossilised human skeleton namely Lucy was found in Ethiopia in 1974. They were nearly 3 million old.
➤ Ethiopia people have smallest average life compared to other countries. The average lifespan is 50-55 years.
➤ Teff is one of the worlds smallest grain which is grown in Ethiopia.
➤ Coffee lovers should be thankful to the kaffa region of Ethiopia because the coffee was discovered by a Goatherder in kaffa region when he was hearding his goats.
➤ As the camels and donkey were abundant in this Nation they were first to make this animals Domesticated.
➤ If you ever visit Ethiopia and if someone offers you a cup of tea or coffee, never say no, because it is considered disrespectful of impolite behavior.
➤ Ethiopia is also one of the worlds least consuming calories country. According to study average calories consumption of an individual per day in Ethiopia is 1850.
➤ Dallon in Ethiopia is the worlds top country for maintaining the highest average temperature throughout the year. The average annually temperature is 35℃.
➤ The Famine that took place in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 nearly effected 80 lakh people and more than 10 lakh people were dead due to scarcity of food.
➤ If you are planning to Ethiopia and if you are a wine lover then you should taste their home made wines made out of honey and shrub.
➤ It is the only country in Africa continent that was never colonized. Italians tried to colonize them but they got defeated in the Battle of Adwa fought on 1 march 1896.
➤ Lake Tana in Ethiopia is one of the biggest lake which is source to the Blue Nile.
➤ It is one of the poorest countries of the world. The average Ethiopian people lives on 1 US Dollar per day.
➤ As more than half of the population follows Christianity Religion eating of meat or animal products is normally avoided on Wednesday and Friday. They mainly stick to vegetarian diet on these days.
➤ More than 70% of Africa's mountains are located in Ethiopia, so thats the reason it is called as 'Horns of Africa'
➤ Gelada Baboons which are the oldest species of monkeys are found only in Ethiopia. They are also called as bleeding heart monkey. Hamadryas Baboons are olso very rare species of old monkeys which is found here.
➤ Eating raw meat is one of the most common thing in Ethiopia. It is eaten occasionally during parties, weddings, festivals etc.
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