Blank Map of Ethiopia

The outline of Ethiopia with Lake Tana, plain or with region borders and Addis Ababa.

Blank Map of Ethiopia

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Write the name of each numbered region or city.Answer key

  1. Addis Ababa
  2. Afar
  3. Amhara
  4. Benishangul-Gumuz
  5. Gambela
  6. Harari
  7. Oromia
  8. Somali
  9. Tigray

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each region or city is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a region or city is answered.

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  1. Addis Ababa The capital, a chartered city of its own.
  2. Afar
  3. Amhara
  4. Benishangul-Gumuz
  5. Gambela
  6. Harari A very small region in the east, beside Dire Dawa.
  7. Oromia
  8. Somali
  9. Tigray

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids, points and most accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. THE DRAWING IS DATED: it has the eleven units Ethiopia had until 2020, not today's twelve regional states and two chartered cities. Today's list was read on 2026-10-01 in the United Nations' administrative boundary table for Ethiopia (OCHA COD-AB version 04, valid 1 January 2025, https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-eth: Tigray, Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali, Benishangul-Gumuz, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia, South West Ethiopia, Gambela, Harari, Sidama, Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa) and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Ethiopia (twelve regional states and two chartered cities; Sidama made in 2020, South West Ethiopia Peoples' in 2021, South Ethiopia and Central Ethiopia in 2023 out of the old southern region); both agree with the points file on the ten units that did not change. The page numbers nine of those ten: Addis Ababa and the regions Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambela, Harari, Oromia, Somali and Tigray. The shape of the former southern region is in this file for the drawing and is never asked; Dire Dawa is a shape of the drawing with no item here. The points file gives Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Harari a ring with a leader line; the page opens on the plain outline, where those lines would stand alone, so the rings are left out, and Dire Dawa, whose point lies 24 units from Harari's, has no number because two marks do not fit there. The UN table also files an area of the country as contested, outside every region; the line between Tigray and Amhara is the one Natural Earth draws. Read again on 2026-10-03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Ethiopia (twelve regional states and two chartered cities) and, for the west of Tigray, which Tigray and Amhara both claim and the drawing shows inside Tigray, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Zone. The outline of the drawing was laid over that Natural Earth file on 2026-10-03: the two cover the same area. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Water cut out of the shapes from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 9.1°N 38.5°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Ethiopia opens on the plain outline of the country, with Lake Tana in the northwest. Switch Borders on for the region lines of before 2020; nine regions and cities that exist today are numbered.

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Outline first

The sheet opens with nothing inside the outline but Lake Tana, which lies in Amhara. It is a sheet to draw rivers, cities or regions on. Borders adds the region lines.

Why nine have numbers

The lines are those of before 2020. Numbered and Named label nine units that exist today: Addis Ababa and the regions Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambela, Harari, Oromia, Somali and Tigray. The large southern area has since been divided into four regions and stays unlabeled. Dire Dawa, beside Harari, is drawn without a number.

  • To finish the map, have students draw the four new southern regions in by hand.

Questions and answers

How many regions does Ethiopia have?

Twelve regional states; Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa are chartered cities. The map source is older: it shows one southern region where there are now four, Sidama, South West Ethiopia Peoples’, South Ethiopia and Central Ethiopia.

What is the capital of Ethiopia?

Addis Ababa, a chartered city of its own. It is the small shape near the middle of the map, and the first number on the sheet.

Why is Dire Dawa not numbered?

Dire Dawa and Harari are two very small shapes side by side in the east, too close for two marks. Harari, a regional state, has the number; Dire Dawa, a chartered city, is the shape just northwest of it.

Are any borders on this map disputed?

Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. It draws the west of Tigray, around Humera and Welkait, inside Tigray; Tigray and Amhara both claim that land.

Which countries border Ethiopia?

Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan. Ethiopia has no coast. On this map the neighbors are plain land without names.

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