Ethiopia topographic maps
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Hossana
Ethiopia > Central Ethiopia Regional State
Hosaena, Hossana or Hosaina is a town which level as a woreda in southern Ethiopia, and currently serve as the administrative center of Hadiya Zone and Central Ethiopia Regional State as well. Geographically located to the central south of Ethiopia, with a latitude and longitude of 7°33′N 37°51′E /…
Average elevation: 7,398 ft
Freweyni
Freweyni (also known as Sinkata or ferawun) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located 80 kilometers north of Mekele in the Misraqawi Zone of the Tigray Region (or kilil) of Ethiopia, this town has a latitude and longitude of 14°3′N 39°34′E / 14.050°N 39.567°E / 14.050; 39.567 with an elevation…
Average elevation: 8,107 ft
Robe
Arsi Robe is a town in south-eastern Oromia. It is named after the nearby Robe River. It is the administrative centre of the Robe (Aanaa) in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia State, this town has a latitude and longitude of 09°36′N 39°08′E / 9.600°N 39.133°E / 9.600; 39.133 with an elevation of 2435…
Average elevation: 8,005 ft
Humera
Humera (Tigrinya: ሑመራ; Amharic: ሁመራ) is a town in the Kafta Humera woreda in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Western Zone the town has an elevation of 585 metres (1,919 ft) above sea level. The Tekezé river borders the town to the north. Humera is a very important regional…
Average elevation: 1,949 ft
Shoa Robit
Shewa Robit (Amharic: ሸዋ ሮቢት)also known as Robi, Shah Robit, Shoa Robit or Robit is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of 10°00′N 39°54′E / 10.000°N 39.900°E / 10.000; 39.900 with an elevation…
Average elevation: 4,462 ft
Metu
Metu (Oromo: Mattuu) is a market town and separate woreda in south-western Ethiopia. Located in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia along the Sor River, this town has a latitude and longitude of 8°18′N 35°35′E / 8.300°N 35.583°E / 8.300; 35.583 and an altitude of 1605 meters. Metu was the capital…
Average elevation: 5,518 ft
Chiro
Chiro (also called Asebe Teferi or Asba Littoria; Afaan Oromo: Ciroo) is a town and Aanaa in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the West Hararghe Zone in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia Ahmar Mountains, it has a latitude and longitude of 9°05′N 40°52′E / 9.083°N 40.867°E / 9.083; 40.867 and an…
Average elevation: 6,135 ft
Simien Mountains National Park
The vegetation is mixed with African alpine forests, wilderness forests and alpine vegetation. High altitude areas include montane savannah and tree heath (Erica arborea), giant lobelia (Lobelia rhynchopetalum), yellow primrose (Primula verticillata), everlastings (Helichrysum spp.), A lady's mantle…
Average elevation: 7,667 ft
Harena Forest
The Harenna Forest is a montane tropical evergreen forest in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains. The forest covers the southern slope of the mountains, extending from 1450 to 3200 meters elevation. The Bale Mountains are in Ethiopia's Oromia Region, and form the southwestern portion of the Ethiopian Highlands.
Average elevation: 6,654 ft
Ogaden Desert
The Ogaden is a plateau, with an elevation above sea level that ranges from 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in the northwest, falling to about 300 metres (980 ft) along the southern limits and the Wabi Shebelle valley. The areas with altitudes between 1,400 and 1,600 metres (4,600 and 5,200 ft) are characterised as…
Average elevation: 1,916 ft
Metemma
Metemma (Amharic: መተማ), also known as Metemma Yohannes, is a town in northwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Sudan. Located in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, Metemma has a latitude and longitude of 12°58′N 36°12′E / 12.967°N 36.200°E / 12.967; 36.200 with an elevation of…
Average elevation: 2,421 ft
Awash
The Awash River basin, spanning 23 administrative zones, covers 10% of Ethiopia's area and hosts about 17% of its population. It is partly located in the Main Ethiopian Rift. The Awash River is 1,200 kilometres long. It starts in Ethiopia’s central highlands at an elevation of 3000 m and passes through a…
Average elevation: 4,777 ft
Sire
Sire (also transliterated "Sirie") is a town in south-western Oromia. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia, Ethiopia. This town has a latitude and longitude of 08°17′N 39°27′E / 8.283°N 39.450°E / 8.283; 39.450 with an altitude of 1793 meters above sea level. It is administrative center of…
Average elevation: 6,670 ft
Asassa
Asasa is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the West Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 07°06′N 39°12′E / 7.100°N 39.200°E / 7.100; 39.200 with an elevation of 2367 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Gedeb Asasa woreda.
Average elevation: 7,815 ft
Dessie
Dessie (Amharic: ደሴ, romanized: Däse; also spelled Dese or Dessye) is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the South Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, it sits at a latitude and longitude of 11°8′N 39°38′E / 11.133°N 39.633°E / 11.133; 39.633, with an elevation between 2,470 and…
Average elevation: 8,038 ft
Alamata
Alamata (Tigrinya: ኣላማጣ ) is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi (Southern) zone of Tigray it has a latitude and longitude of 12°25′N 39°33′E / 12.417°N 39.550°E / 12.417; 39.550 and an elevation of 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) above sea level and is located…
Average elevation: 5,164 ft
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia > Addis Ababa > Arada
Moreover, the city held strong social organizations pattern prior Italian invasion. According to Richard Pankhurst (1968), the city accelerated population growth due to factors of provisional governors and their troops, the 1892 famine, eventually the Battle of Adwa. Another include the 1907 land act,…
Average elevation: 8,258 ft
Adwa
Adwa (Tigrinya: ዓድዋ; Amharic: ዐድዋ; also spelled Adowa or Aduwa) is a town and separate woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is best known as the community closest to the site of the 1896 Battle of Adwa, in which Ethiopian soldiers defeated Italian troops, thus being one of the few African nations…
Average elevation: 6,437 ft
Wolaita Sodo
Ethiopia > South Ethiopia Regional State
Sodo (Amharic: ሶዶ) or officially Wolaita Sodo (Amharic: ወላይታ ሶዶ, Wolaytta: Wolaytta Sooddo) is a city in south Ethiopia. The City is a political and administrative center of the Wolaita Zone and South Ethiopia Regional State. It has a latitude and longitude of 6°54′N 37°45′E /…
Average elevation: 6,145 ft
Agaro
Agaro (also spelled Haggaro) (Oromo: Aggaaroo) is a town and separate woreda in south-western Ethiopia. Located in the Jimma Zone of the Oromia Region, it sits at an elevation of 1,560 meters above sea level.
Average elevation: 5,502 ft
