Ethiopia
- Created by: LunaShomeiRose
- Created on: 17-03-19 12:16
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- Ethiopia
- Location
- Centre-east of africa
- Landlocked (bordered by 6 countries)
- Landscape
- Western highlands: densely vegetated
- Rise upto 4500 meters
- Cooler then lowlands
- Thin soil
- hard for communications + machinery use
- Eastern Lowlands: arid desert
- Better for farming then highlands
- suffer from overgrazing (animals eating grass), soil erosion and desertification (fertile land becomes desert)
- Western highlands: densely vegetated
- Suffered from droughts + famine
- Africa's oldest independent country
- Was founded member of the united nation
- Climate
- Eastern lowlands: Droughts, 2 rainy seasons. 2 dry. unreliable 0-300mm rain. temp. 30-40
- But food production still high in wetter/cooler western + central regions
- Western Highlands: wettest region. Long rainy season. Steep land (4500m). Temp. average 25-35. Average 1200-2000mm rain - good for crops
- Eastern lowlands: Droughts, 2 rainy seasons. 2 dry. unreliable 0-300mm rain. temp. 30-40
- Ecosystems
- Various
- Mountainous, woodlands, wetlands
- Highlands: tropical savanna grasslands
- Eastern Lowlands: deserts + semi-deserts
- High biodiversity
- Various
- Natural Resources
- gold, oil. gas - not yet fully exploited
- Location
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