Which African country has a total area of 1,104,300 square kilometers and capital Addis Ababa? The answer is Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa, covering about 1,104,300 square kilometers. Addis Ababa, located in the central highlands, is the national capital and the country’s largest city. The city is also an important diplomatic center because it hosts the headquarters of the African Union.
Much of Ethiopia is dominated by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged elevated region divided by the Great Rift Valley. The Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana in the northwest highlands, while the country’s highest peak is Ras Dashen. Ethiopia shares borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan.
The area figure can vary in references depending on whether figures reflect different boundary or water-area calculations, but Ethiopia is the canonical answer to the question. It is also one of Africa’s most historically distinctive states: the ancient Ethiopian kingdom developed its own written tradition, and modern Ethiopia largely avoided long-term European colonial rule, apart from the Italian occupation of 1936–1941.