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1,043 Articles of interest in Ethiopia

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  • Gondar Airport

    Gondar Airport (IATA: GDQ, ICAO: HAGN), also known as Atse Tewodros Airport, is an airport serving Gondar, a city in the northern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. The name of the city and airport may also be transliterated as Gonder.

  • Gode Zone

    Gode (Somali: Godey) is one of nine Zones of the Somali Region, Ogaden, of Ethiopia. This zone is named for its largest city, Gode. Gode is bordered on the west by Afder, on the north by Fiq, on the northeast by Korahe, and on the south by the Provi…

  • Gilo River

    The Gilo River (also transliterated as Gelo) is a river in the Gambela Region of southwestern Ethiopia. It is also known by a variety of names: the Gimira of Dizu call it the "Mene", while the Gemira of Chako call it "Owis", and Amhara and Oromo set…

  • Gidole

    Gidole is a town in southern Ethiopia, and is the administrative center of the Dirashe special woreda. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, it sits at a latitude and longitude of (05°39′N37°22′E) with an elevation ran…

  • Gamu-Gofa

    Gamu-Gofa was a province in the southern part of Ethiopia, named after two of the ethnic groups living within its boundaries, the Gamo and the Goffa. First incorporated into Ethiopia by Emperor Menelik II in the 1880s, its capital was first at Chenc…

  • Finote Selam

    Finote Selam is a town and separate woreda in western Ethiopia. Located in the Mirab Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of (10°42′N37°16′E) with an elevation of 1917 meters above sea level.

  • Dek Island

    Dek Island (Dek Deset in Amharic) is the biggest island (approximately 16 square kilometers in size) on Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It is administratively included in the Bahir Dar Zuria woreda of the Mirab Gojjam Zone.

  • Dallol (woreda)

    Dallol is one of the woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named for the former mining settlement of Dallol, which set the record for the hottest inhabited place on Earth, with an average temperature of 34° C. Located at the norther…

  • Chilga

    Chilga (also Chelga, Ch'ilga, etc.; Ge'ez: ጭልጋ č̣ilgā) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is named after its chief town Chilga (also known as Ayikel), an important stopping point on the historic Gondar-Sudan trade route. Part…

  • Butajira

    Butajira is a town and separate woreda in south-central Ethiopia. Located at the base of the Zebidar massif in the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of (8°07′N38°22′E) and…

  • Bure (disputed zone)

    Bure is a small disputed area on the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia, about 50 miles west of Asseb with a latitude and a longitude of (12°37′N42°12′E). Eritrea considers Bure to be a part of its Southern Red Sea Zone, while Ethiopia considers B…

  • Boloso Sore

    Boloso Sore is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Wolayita Zone, Boloso Sore is bordered on the south by Sodo Zuria and Damot Sore, on the west by Boloso Bombe, on the northeast by…

  • Boji

    Boji was one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is divided between Boji Chokorsa and Boji Dirmaji woredas. Part of the Mirab Welega Zone, Boji was bordered on the southwest by Ayra Guliso, on the west by Jarso, on the northwest …

  • Bati, Ethiopia

    Bati is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Oromia Zone of the Amhara Region (or killoch), east of Dessie this town has a latitude and longitude of (11°11′N40°1′E) with an elevation of 1502 metres above sea level.

  • Asosa Airport

    Asosa Airport (IATA: ASO, ICAO: HASO) is an airport serving Asosa, the capital of the western Benishangul-Gumuz Region in Ethiopia. The name of the city and airport may also be transliterated as Assosa.

  • Alaba special woreda

    Alaba is a special woreda in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Alaba people, and covers part of their homeland. Located in the Great Rift Valley, Alaba is bordered on the south by an exclave …

  • Adwa (volcano)

    Adwa (also known as Aabida, Amoissa, or Dabita) (1733 m/5686 ft.) is a stratovolcano in Ethiopia, located in the southern Afar region and has a 4 by 5 km caldera. Due to the location of the volcano near the boundary between Afar and Issa tribes, lit…

  • Abba Garima Monastery

    Abba Garima Monastery is an Ethiopian Orthodox monastery, located some 5 kilometres east of Adwa, in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia.

  • Wonchi

    Wonchi is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Mirab Shewa Zone, Wonchi is bordered on the southwest by Amaya, on the nort by Mirab Shewa Zone, and on the southeast by Walisona Goro.

  • Wereta

    Wereta (also transliterated as Woreta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of (11°55′N37°42′E) with an elevation o…

  • Walaqa River

    The Walaqa River, a tributary of the Blue Nile, is river in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Wegde is located to its north. Mida Woremo and Dera are to the south, while Kelala is to the northeast.

  • Waja

    Waja (also known as Waja Temuga) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, south of the city of Alamata, this town has a latitude and longitude of (12°17′N39°36′E) with an elevation of 1471 meters above sea …

  • Wag Hemra Zone

    Wag Hemra is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Its name is a combination of the former province of Wag, and the dominant local ethnic group, the Kamyr (or "Hemra") Agaw. Wag Hemra is bordered on the south by Semien Wollo, on the southwest by …

  • Tsegede

    Tsegede (sometimes Sagade) is one of the woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the historic province of Tsegede. Part of the Mi'irabawi Zone, Tsegede is bordered on the south and west by the Amhara Region, on the northwest by K…

  • Sude

    Sude is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Arsi Zone, Sude is bordered on the south by Robe, on the southwest by Tena, on the west by Dodotana Sire, on the northwest by Jeju, on the north by Merti, on the northeast by C…

  • Silte (woreda)

    Silte (also transliterated Silti) is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named after a subgroup of the Silt'e people, whose homeland includes this woreda. Formerly part of the Gurage Zone…

  • Rama, Ethiopia

    Rama (also called Mai Lala, Lala) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located 35 km north of the town of Adwa and 7 kilometers from the border with Eritrea, in the Mehakelegnaw (Central) Zone of the Tigray Region, this town occupies a fertile lowland ar…

  • Raaso

    Raaso (var. Raso) is a location in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It is inhabited by the Sheekhaal clan. Raaso is situated along the Imi–Ginir road, in the Mirab Imi woreda of Afder Zone, some 40 kilometers north-west of West Imi (or Mirab Imi) vill…

  • Mount Zuqualla

    Mount Zuqualla (also spelled Zuquala or Chukala) is an extinct volcano in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Situated in Ada'a Chukala woreda of the Misraq (East) Shewa Zone, it rises from the plain 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Debre Zeyit. With a hei…