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Capital City

Addis Ababa

Population

2,739,551

Unemployment Rate

22.3 %

Employment to Population ratio

53.7 %

Major Economic Activities

The day to day life activities of the city's population is predominantly based on different sorts of occupation. These include, 119,197 in trade and commerce; 113,977 in manufacturing and industry;80,391 home makers of different variety; 71,186 in civil administration; 50,538 in transport and communication; 42,514 in education, health and social services; 32,685 in hotel and catering services; and 16,602 in agriculture. Besides the residents of rural parts of Addis Ababa, the city dwellers also participate in animal husbandry and cultivation of gardens. Currently 677 hectares of land is irrigated annually, on which 129,880 quintals of vegetables are cultivated.

Administrative

Addis Ababa comprises 6 zones and 28 woredas. The city is divided into 328 dwelling associations (Kebeles) of which 305 are urban and 23 rural. The city council is made up of 18 bureaus, offices and authorities. Amharic is the working language of the city administration.

Addis Ababa is the diplomatic capital of Africa. More than 92 embassies and consular representatives cluster in the city where the Organization of African Unity and the UN Economic Commission for Africa have their headquarters. %

Heritage

The Entoto St. Mary Museum, at 3,200 meters above sea level, harbors articles of historical significance (crowns, drum of the march to the march to the battle of Adwa, ceremonial dresses of Emperor Menelik and Empress Taitu etc…). The National Museum of Ethiopia is also endowed with the earliest hominid skeletons of Lucy (3.4 million years) and Ramidus (4.4 million years old), as well as jewelry, costumes, paintings and sculptures. Ethnographic Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies is another tourist attraction. The Zoological Natural History Museum displays, from Ethiopia's wild life wealth, the sizable proportion of which are endemic species of rodents, bats, carnivores, primates, birds, snakes, lizards, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates.

The city also presents to its visitor's church museums with their fascinating wall paintings and remains of kings in the underground crypt. Century old stamps in the Ethiopian Postal Museum, photographs depicting the development of the city (at Addis Ababa Museum), and parks, where lions and cubs, monkeys and baboons are caged are some of the spots to visitors. %