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The name Ethiopia, a country in eastern Africa, is derived from the fact that the ancient Greeks called the area "Aithiops" (sunburnt face).

Most of its territory is covered by the Ethiopian Highlands called the “roof of Africa". Many mountains rise over 4 000 metres above sea level in the highlands.

The Afar basin, the lowest region in Africa, is also located in Ethiopia.

The average elevation of the Ethiopian Plateau is 1 800-2 000 metres above sea level. But as it is located in the tropics, the weather in most regions is relatively cool. It provides a favourable condition for agricultural development.

Agriculture is the most important part of the country’s economy. The main food crops are sorghum, maize, barley and bean.

The Ethiopian government has recently announced a plan for modernizing agriculture by 2032. The plan is aimed at increasing grain production and ensuring sustainable food security by promoting the wide introduction of digital technologies into agriculture. It also includes the improvement of the digitized service environment to provide the farmers with necessary data in real time, and the bolstering of financial support for them.

Ethiopia is one of the largest coffee producing and exporting countries in Africa. In the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, which started in July last year, the country exported over 354 300 tons of coffee, a 70% increase over the same period of the previous fiscal year.

In addition to the cultivated coffee, it has 400 000 hectares of wild coffee groves. White coffee produced here is in great demand in the international market for its good quality.

Efforts are also directed to developing livestock farming. The Ethiopian government has taken positive measures to increase the output of livestock products and improve their quality, holding fast to livestock farming, a major source of foreign currency income, as an important link in the whole chain of the development of the national economy. Known as the country with the largest population of domestic animals on the African continent, Ethiopia now breeds about 70.3 million cattle, 95.4 million sheep and goats and others.

Natural parks have been built in the country to protect rare species of animals and plants.

The Ethiopian government is implementing programmes for eliminating poverty and achieving development and prosperity at home, while externally pursuing nonalignment policies and putting efforts into enhancing cooperation with developing countries.

In particular, the Ethiopian people powerfully demonstrated their will to put an end to the unipolar world where the imperialists' high-handed and arbitrary practices prevail and promote cooperation with developing countries and the building of a just multipolar world through their country’s gaining of full membership in BRICS.

Their positive efforts to achieve the country’s economic growth and develop the friendly and cooperative relations with different countries of the world will bear good fruit.

On June 5 1975, the DPRK and Ethiopia established diplomatic relations.