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Ethiopia

Flag of Ethiopia

Flag of Ethiopia

 

Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, and red with a yellow pentagram and single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points on a light blue disk centered on the three bands; Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, and the three main colors of her flag were so often adopted by other African countries upon independence that they became known as the pan-African colors
Capital: Addis Ababa
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Somalia


Map of Ethiopia

Map of Ethiopia

 

 


 

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