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ETHIOPIA & SOMALIA
Map Of Ethiopia & Somalia
Ethiopian Flag
ETHIOPIA:
The country of Ethiopia is located on the east sub region of Africa, or one of the few countries that border the horn of Africa. Surprisingly, Ethiopia is ranked the 13th greatest country in the world, and the population of Ethiopia compared to the world, is 1.33%. The population count as recent at the current year, 2014, was 96,506,031 and the capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa. Lastly, the language the people speak in Ethiopia is Amharic. The flag of Ethiopia has changed to different versions, and the most recent flag, with the disc, star and rays was only changed on February 6, 1996. To this day, the Ethiopian flag is one of the newest flags in the nation. This is ironic because Ethiopia itself is the oldest independent African state. One interesting fact about the flag is that the colors that are represented on the flag are now known as Pan African colors, and today, sometimes black is added to represent the African people.
Interesting Facts...
v Consists
of 3 equal horizontal stripes; all with different meanings
v Red:
power, faith, and blood
v Yellow:
Church, peace, natural wealth, and love
v Green:
Land and hope
v Colors
also connect to the Holy Trinity and 3 main provinces of Ethiopia
v The
star on the flag represents unity of the people and the races that make up
Ethiopia
v The
rays on the star represent prosperity
v The
blue background of the star and rays represents peace
Somalian Flag
SOMALIA:
Somalia is also located in Africa, and is the country that makes up the horn of Africa. The current population of the country today is 10,805,651 people, and they rank 82nd in the nation in size and population from greatest to largest. The country Somalia takes up about 0.15% of the world population, even though the country itself really isn’t that small. The capital of Somalia is Mogadishu, and two of the languages they speak there are Arabic and Somalian. The country looks bigger than it actually is, and most people believe that it is because the country of Ethiopia intrudes where the center would be if it wasn't there.
Interesting
Facts...
v The blue
background of the flag originates from the flag of the United Nations and
represents the blue sky that overlooks Somalia and the United Nations
v The
blue sky that the background refers to is the motivation the country had to
gain their independence
v the
white star represents African freedom
v The
five points ion the star represent the five historical regions inhabited
by the Somali people; Italian Somaliland (Somalia), British Somaliland
(Somalia), French Somaliland (Djibouti), and the Ogaden region of Ethiopia and
North Kenya
v
Between January 1991 - August 2000 the country
had no working government
v
A parliament government was formed in 2000 but it
expired in 2003 without control of the country
v
Just in 2004 a transitional parliament was
instituted and that is the government that hold to this day
Glossary:
1. Holy Trinity: a Cathedral known in Amharic as Kidist Selassie; the highest ranking Orthodox Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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