Ethiopia

The country calling code for Ethiopia is +251. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Ethiopia number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Ethiopia is assigned ET as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and ETH as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Ethiopia is .et. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Ethiopia is the Ethiopian birr, with the ISO 4217 code ETB and the symbol Br. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Ethiopia are quoted in ETB. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Ethiopia is +03:00, currently UTC+03:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia sits in Africa, specifically the Eastern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 8.00000000, 38.00000000. Traffic in Ethiopia drives on the right. Languages recorded for Ethiopia: Amharic.

Ethiopia shares a land border with 6 countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.