Ethiopia is a country.
Ethiopia . With over 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria . Ethiopia derived prestige with its uniquely successful military resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa , becoming the only African country to defeat a European colonial power and retain its sovereignty . The country is the site of the Migration to Abyssinia and the oldest Muslim settlement in Africa at Negash . Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches .