Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations on earth and the only African state to defeat a European colonial power at the Battle of Adwa (1896). Emperor Haile Selassie modernised the empire until the 1974 Derg communist coup. The Tigray War (2020-22) claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Ethiopia is the seat of the African Union.

• Existed: 1941 CE – present
• Type: Entity
• Government: Federal Republic
• Capital: Addis Ababa