About the Atlas

The Ethiopian Atlas is an independent, map-first reference to the land, regions and heritage of Ethiopia. It is built from published open data, and every figure on the site can be traced to its source.

It maps administrative geography — regions, zones, woredas, terrain, cities, roads and heritage — and deliberately does not map languages, ethnicity or identity. Boundaries are depicted exactly as published; depiction is not an endorsement.

Sources & licences

Method

Region statistics (areas, ranks, shares, zone and woreda counts, administrative centres) are computed directly from the boundary dataset. Heritage sites are assigned to regions by locating each site's point within the boundary polygons. Where a source omits a value — or a point sits on a boundary — the page says so rather than filling the gap.

Boundaries

Administrative boundaries are depicted exactly as published by the source, including one area the dataset itself designates “Contested.” Depiction is not an endorsement, and the Atlas takes no position on administrative or territorial status.

The makers

The Atlas was created by Charlie & Toby Cromie, and it began, as the best projects do, with a family story. Their grandfather, Michael Sargent, served in Ethiopia as Director of the British Council in the 1990s and has devoted much of his life since to the country's heritage and its people — a lifelong engagement that filled the family with his fascination for Ethiopia's landscapes, histories and cultures. This site is built in that spirit: an attempt to present the country's regions, mountains, roads and monuments with the care, rigour and restraint they deserve, so that others might catch the same fascination.

The Simien Mountains, live from the Atlas — terrain, roads and boundaries as everywhere else on this site. Hover a summit: ▲ Ras Dejen will tell you its height. The amber point is Simien National Park, a World Heritage site. Open the full map →

Photography

Region photographs are from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain), self-hosted, each credited and linked to its source file beneath the image. Narrative paragraphs are limited to well-established geography and this site's own documented heritage, with sources listed under each.

Privacy

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