Weldiya
Weldiya or Woldia is a town, woreda, and capital of the North Wollo Zone in the Amhara Region in northern Ethiopia. It has an elevation of 2112 meters above sea level and is surrounded by Guba Lafto woreda.
- Type: Town with 104,000 residents
- Description: city in Amhara, Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Waldeyā”, “Waldia”, “Weldia”, “Weldya”, “Wubete”, “ወልዲያ”, and “ወልድያ”
Weldiya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Amhara, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.8289° or 11° 49′ 44″ north
Longitude
39.5963° or 39° 35′ 47″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
1,892 metres (6,207 feet)
Open location code
7G3XRHHW+GG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Weldiya” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ወልደያ”
- Arabic: “ولدايا”
- Arabic: “ولديا”
- Asturian: “Weldiya”
- Chinese: “沃尔迪亚”
- Chinese: “沃爾迪亞”
- Croatian: “Veldija”
- Dutch: “Weldiya”
- French: “Weldiya”
- German: “Weldiya”
- Indonesian: “Weldiya”
- Italian: “Ualdia”
- Persian: “ولدیا”
- Polish: “Ueldija”
- Polish: “Weldiya”
- Romanian: “Woldia”
- Russian: “Уольдыя”
- Serbian: “Veldija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Veldija”
- Slovenian: “Veldija”
- Swahili: “Weldiya”
- Urdu: “ویلڈیا”
- Zulu: “Weldiya”
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