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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 21, 2011 -- With an amazing travel experience, tours in Ethiopia introduce you to the most popular destinations of Ethiopia. With diverse wildlife destinations, beautiful landscapes and as well as an extraordinary culture and history with your budget and time frame, we offer quality and personal services, built around clients' needs, interest and time to allow you to enjoy all the great Ethiopian attractions.

We are a tour destination company, and has been a local Ethiopian tour operator for over 6 years, offering historical and cultural tours, adventures in the Denakil Deseret wildlife safaris, Birding safaris, mountain trekking and tailor made tours depending on the your needs.

* Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
* Capital City: Addis Ababa
* Location: Ethiopia is located in the northern part of Africa known as the ‘Horn of Africa’. It is bordered by Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south.
* Geographic coordinates: Ethiopia extends from 3o - 15o north of the equator, and 33o – 48o east of the Greenwich Meridian.
* Area:
* 1.14 million Sq.km.
* Arable Land: 45%

* Irrigable Area: 10 million hectares
* Irrigated Land: about 3%
* Demography
* Total population: about 80 million (2008 projection)
o Female population: 39.9 million
o Male population: 40.1 million
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Rural population: 66.8 million
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Urban population:13.2 million
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Population growth rate: 2.73% per annum
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Population density:66.5:1 sq.km
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Life expectancy
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Male: 53.42 years
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Female:55.42 years

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Age structure (in percent)
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0-14: 42.8%
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15-19: 10.5%
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20-49: 37.4%
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50-59: 4.9%
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60 and above: 4.4%
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Working Age population (in %)
o Urban: 54.7%
o Rural: 50.6%
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Languages: Four major language families which altogether constitute about 80 languages
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Official Language: Amharic

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English is also widely spoken in business transactions, particularly in banking and insurance firms. It is also the medium of instruction in secondary and higher education institutions.
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Predominant Religions: Christianity and Islam
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Form of State: Federal ,comprising the Federal Government, nine Regional States and two chartered cities
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National Legislation: Bicameral parliament; the house of peoples’ representative and House of federation
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Election: Every five years.
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Altitude: It ranges from 148 meters below sea level at the Dallol Depression, in the east, to 4620 meters above sea level on the Ras Dashen in the north.
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Climate: Temperate in the highland and hot in the lowland. Temperature ranges from 20oC to 30oC. Rainfall ranges from 200mm to 2000mm per year.
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Time Zone: GMT+3
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Rainy seasons: Ethiopia receives big rains in June, July, and August; and small rains in February and March.
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Currency:
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Currency unit: Birr
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1birr= 100cents
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Currency notes: 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100Birr.
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Copper coins: 1,5,10,25,and 50 cents
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Foreign currency can be exchanged at the Airport on arrival, at banks, or licensed hotels.

The People and Culture

Ethiopia has been called a rich cultural mosaic due to its eighty different languages and dialects and as many, if not more, cultural variations.

The Amharas are located In the central highland plateau of Ethiopia and comprise the major population element in administrative zones of Gonder, Gojjam, in parts of Shoa and Wollo of the Amhara regional state.

The Oromos are the largest ethnic group in the country. They are a pastoral and agricultural people who live mainly in central and south - western Ethiopia.

People belonging to Nilo- Saharan ethnic group occupies the western part of the Country stretching from the borders with Eritrea to Lake Turkana.

Elsewhere around the country there are a number of smaller communities whose cultures, languages and traditions are related to different facers of Ethiopia’s long history and, as with all the peoples of the country, to its religions be they Orthodox Christians, Muslims or members of other faiths.

Folk culture is also an important element of today's Ethiopia. Artists and craftsmen make their own contributions to the countrie’s cultural and social development. Almost every town has its own cultural troupe made up of singers and dancers, poets and writers, and its own cultural hall in which the troupe re-creates the song and dance of its particular area from a bygone age.

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