Map of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 8.0° N, 38.0° E. Ethiopia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Ethiopia is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Ethiopia covers about 1,104,300 km² (426,373 sq mi). That makes it the 26th-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 44 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 111,652,998, the 14th-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 7.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Ethiopia has an average population density of about 101 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 3rd by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Addis Ababa, and the official currency is the Ethiopian birr (ETB, Br), and the main official language is Amharic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Ethiopia carries the ISO country codes ET and ETH, dials on the international calling code +251 and uses the .et internet domain.

Ethiopia shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Kenya (capital Nairobi, about 53,330,978 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Somalia (capital Mogadishu, about 19,655,000 people), South Sudan (capital Juba, about 15,786,898 people), Eritrea (capital Asmara, about 3,607,000 people) and Djibouti (capital Djibouti, about 1,066,809 people).

By area, Ethiopia is larger than 5 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.0° N, 38.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Ethiopia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Addis Ababa. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Ethiopia lies about 888 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Ethiopia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Ethiopian birr (ETB, Br).

The official language is Amharic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +251 and websites commonly use the .et internet domain.

In short, Ethiopia is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia has a population of about 111,652,998 and covers around 1,104,300 km² (426,373 sq mi), ranking it 14th in the world by population and 26th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Ethiopia.

The flag of Ethiopia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, yellow and red, with the national emblem superimposed at the center of the field. The national emblem comprises a light blue circle bearing a golden-yellow pentagram with single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points of the pentagram.

The flag of Ethiopia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.