More than a hundred years ago, it was still a wilderness. Sahle Miriam's wife, Taitu, built a house next to the hot springs here, and allowed the nobles to build houses on plots of land here, which became the beginning of building the city. 1887 Sahle Miriam officially moved its capital here. According to Amharic, Addis Ababa means "flowers", which are for Queen Tutu. After World War II, the city entered a period of development. Today, Addis Ababa has become a prosperous modern city with wide and tidy streets and many high-rise office buildings and apartments nearby. Not far from the square is the former palace. On both sides of a garden-like boulevard nearby, there are well-known buildings such as Parliament Building, government ministries, museums, Africa Building, Addis Ababa University and Grand Council. In the square of Sahle Miriam Avenue, stands a tall bronze statue of Sahle Miriam, riding on a war horse. There is a town hall in the southwest corner of the square. The street connecting the city hall and the railway station slopes from north to south according to the terrain, and there are many shops on both sides, which is very spectacular.

Addis Ababa is also the economic center of Ethiopia. More than half of the enterprises in the country are concentrated in the southwest of the city, and the southern suburbs are industrial areas. There is a coffee trading center in this city. It is a road and railway transportation hub with flights connecting domestic cities with African, European and Asian countries. Cities are built on mountains, which can be divided into upper city and lower city according to the terrain. Residential areas are mainly residential and commercial functions; The city center is the distribution area of government agencies, international airports and hotels, with many modern high-rise buildings.