!!!Ethiopia: Geography
||Location|Eastern Africa, west of Somalia
||Geographic Coordinates|8 00 N, 38 00 E[{GoogleMap location='8.0,38.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''1,104,300 sq km\\''land: ''1 million sq km\\''water: ''104,300 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 1104300\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 1104296\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 1127127\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 1127127\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 1063652\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 1127000''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''5,925 km\\''border countries: ''Djibouti 342 km, Eritrea 1,033 km, Kenya 867 km, Somalia 1,640 km, South Sudan 1,299 km, Sudan 744 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Danakil Depression -125 m\\''highest point: ''Ras Dejen 4,533 m
||Highest Mountains|According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Ras Dashen 4533 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]:Ras Dejen 4620 m; Abune Yosef 4260 m; Guge 4200 m; Guna Terara 4120 m; T’at’a YeTerara Ch’af 4073 m\\__List verified partially__\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley
||Natural Hazards|geologically active Great Rift Valley susceptible to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions; frequent droughts volcanism: volcanic activity in the Great Rift Valley; Erta Ale (elev. 613 m), 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
||Natural Resource|small reserves of gold, platinum, copper, potash, natural gas, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''13.19%\\''permanent crops: ''1.01%\\''other: ''85.8% (2011)
||Climate|tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation
||Irrigated Land|2,896 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|122 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|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
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Addis Ababa; Dire Dawa; Nazret; Gondar; Dese\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Addis Ababa; Dire Dawa; Mekele; Nazret; Bahir Dar\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Ethiopia/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked - entire coastline along the Red Sea was lost with the de jure independence of Eritrea on 24 May 1993; Ethiopia is, therefore, the most populous landlocked country in the world; 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\\[Important Lakes|Geography/Africa/Ethiopia/Geography/Important_Lakes]