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Ethiopia Physical Setting
Ethiopia occupies most of the Horn of Africa. The country
covers approximately 1,221,900 square kilometers and shares
frontiers with Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, and Djibouti. Its Red
Sea coastline is about 960 kilometers long. The major
physiographic features are a massive highland complex of
mountains and plateaus divided by the Great Rift Valley and
surrounded by lowlands along the periphery. The diversity of
the terrain is fundamental to regional variations in
climate, natural vegetation, soil composition, and
settlement patterns.
Data as of 1991
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