Ethiopia (/ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/; Amharic: ኢትዮ
ጵያ?, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, About this sound listen (help·info)), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With about 87.9 million inhabitants,[3] Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populated nation on the African continent. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.[2]
Some of the oldest evidence for modern humans is found in Ethiopia,[9] which is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond.[10][11][12] Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history. During the first centuries of the Common Era the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region.
