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Guide to Ethiopia ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Information[edit | edit source]

Ethiopia is a country in Africa bordered by Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya. The official language is Amharic.[1]

Ethiopia Map[edit | edit source]

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Regions[edit | edit source]

Ethiopia is organized into 12 regions and 2 chartered cities:

  • Addis Ababa (city)
  • Afar Region
  • Amhara Region
  • Benishangul-Gumuz Region
  • Central Ethiopia Regional State
  • Dire Dawa (city)
  • Gambela Region
  • Harari Region
  • Oromia Region
  • Sidama Region
  • Somali Region
  • South Ethiopia Regional State
  • South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region
  • Tigray Region

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Ethiopia," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia, accessed 2 May 2016.