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Ethiopia ('), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia "' (     , " yetiyoya Fdralaw Dmokirasyaw Rpebilk " ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast , Djibouti and Somalia to the east , Sudan and South Sudan to the west , and Kenya to the south . With nearly 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second - most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria . It occupies a total area of , and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa . Susenyos I ( also Sissinios , in Greek , Ge ' ez  " ssinys "; throne name Malak Sagad III , Ge ' ez   , " mal ' ak sagad ", Amh . " mel ' k seged ", " to whom the angel bows "; 1572  17 September 1632 ) was ___MASK48___ from 1606 to 1632 . His father was " Abeto " ( Prince ) Fasilides , son of " Abeto " ( Prince ) Yakob , who was a son of Dawit II . As a result , while some authorities list Susenyos as a member of the Solomonic dynasty , others consider him , instead of his son , Fasilides , as the founder of the Gondar line of the dynasty ( ultimately a subset , however , of the Solomonic dynasty ). Yonas or Jonah ( died May , 1813 ) was ngusä nägäst ( 18 August 1797 -- 4 January 1798 ) of Ethiopia . He was the son of Letezum , and the grandson of the ___MASK39___ Fasilides . According to E . A . Wallis Budge , Yonas was a forehead , proclaimed ___MASK39___ by Ras Isra ' el of Begemder , and deposed by Gugsa , a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo . However , the Royal Chronicle records that he was proclaimed ___MASK39___ after the ___MASK39___ who controlled Gondar , Salomon III , had been defeated by the rebel Balambaras Asserat , who forced him to flee Gondar . However , during Yonas ' reign the realm was afflicted by a famine in which `` more men died than could be numbered . '' Yonas ' son Mafu died 7 November then his wife Esther , both apparently from this famine . Lacking any support or rationale for his rule , the major warlords of the time -- Ras Mare ' ed , Dejazmach Hailu Eshte , Dejazmach Wolde Selassie , and Ras Guebra -- all successfully petitioned to ___MASK39___ Tekle Giyorgis to return from exile in Waldebba and become ruler once again . Upon learning of Tekle Giyorgis ' approach when he was still one day ' s march away , Yonas fled to sanctuary in the Abuna ' s palace . After months of hiding in the Abuna ' s palace , Yonas became a potential pawn when Waheldu , the brother of Asserat and also in conflict with the major warlords , attempted to have Yonas brought to him and used as his own candidate for ___MASK39___ . Tekle Giyorgis managed to foil this plot by giving amnesty to Yonas , and had him and Yonas ' brother Goshu , `` dwell with him in friendship '' in the Royal Enclosure . By 1802 , he was a prisoner in Lasta . Henry Salt is reported to have met with his son Fasilidas in Adowa 16 September 1805 , and who `` seemed anxious to have a private conversation ( with Salt ) , but was prevented . '' Nathaniel Pearce reports that Yonas was living in exile in Gojjam at the time of his death , and died penniless `` without leaving sufficient even to purchase a coffin to receive ... ( his ) remains , or money enough for fettart or toscar . '' Fasilides ( Ge ' ez  " Fsladas ", modern " Fsledes "; 20 November 1603  18 October 1667 ), also known as Fasil or Basilide , was ___MASK48___ from 1632 to 18 October 1667 , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty . His throne name was Alam Sagad ( Ge ' ez   " lam Sagad ", modern " lem Seged "), meaning " to whom the world bows ". He was the son of Emperor Susenyos I and Empress Sultana Mogassa , born at Magazaz in Shewa before 10 November 1603 . His paternal grandfather ' s name was also Fasilides . Sudan (" as - Sdn ", ), also known as North Sudan and officially the Republic of the Sudan (" Jumhriyyat as - Sdn "), is a country in Northern Africa . It is bordered by Egypt to the north , the Red Sea , Eritrea , and Ethiopia to the east , South Sudan to the south , the Central African Republic to the southwest , Chad to the west and ___MASK72___ to the northwest . It is the third largest country in Africa . The River Nile divides the country into eastern and western halves . Before the Sudanese Civil War , South Sudan was part of Sudan but broke away in 2011 . Its predominant religion is Islam . The Solomonic dynasty , also known as the House of Solomon , is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire . Its members claim patrilineal descent from ___MASK30___ Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba . Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem . Addis Ababa (' , " new flower " " Natural Spring ( s )") or Addis Abeba ( the spelling used by the official Ethiopian Mapping Authority ), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia . It has a population of ___MASK23___ , 384 , 569 according to the 2007 population census , with annual growth rate of ___MASK23___ . 8 %. This number has been increased from the originally published 2 , 738 , 248 figure and appears to be still largely underestimated . A landlocked state or landlocked country is a ___MASK9___ state entirely enclosed by land , or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas . There are currently 48 such countries , including four partially recognised states . Only two , Bolivia and Paraguay in South America , lie outside Afro - Eurasia ( the Old World ). A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent ___MASK9___ state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - ___MASK9___ or formerly ___MASK9___ political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction .