Teseney
Teseney, also spelled Tessenei or Tesseney, is a market town in western Eritrea. It lies south-east of Kassala in Sudan, on the Gash River. The city was much fought over in the Eritrean War of Independence during which much of it was destroyed.- Type: Town with 18,000 residents
- Description: city in Gash-Barka, Eritrea
- Also known as: “Tesene” and “ተሰነይ Teseney تسني”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Teseney Airport.
Teseney Airport
Aerodrome
Teseney Airport is an airport serving Teseney, Eritrea. It has an asphalt runway of 2,330 meters.
Teseney
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Teseney subregion, Gash-Barka Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.10947° or 15° 6′ 34″ north
Longitude
36.66034° or 36° 39′ 37″ east
Population
18,000
Elevation
594 metres (1,949 feet)
IATA airport code
TES
United Nations Location Code
ER TES
Open location code
7G7R4M56+Q4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Teseney from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Teseney” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تسني”
- Asturian: “Teseney”
- Bulgarian: “Тесеней”
- Cebuano: “Teseney”
- Chinese: “特瑟內”
- Croatian: “Teseney”
- Danish: “Tesseney”
- Dutch: “Teseney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تسنى”
- Finnish: “Teseney”
- Finnish: “Tesseney”
- French: “Tesseney”
- German: “Tesseney”
- Greek: “Τεσενέι”
- Hebrew: “טסניי”
- Irish: “Teseney”
- Italian: “Tessenei”
- Japanese: “テセネイ”
- Japanese: “テッセネイ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tesseney”
- Norwegian: “Tesseney”
- Persian: “تسنی”
- Polish: “Tesenej”
- Portuguese: “Teseney”
- Russian: “Тэсэнэй”
- South Azerbaijani: “تسنی”
- Spanish: “Teseney”
- Swahili: “Teseney”
- Swedish: “Teseney”
- Tigre: “ሰነይ”
- Tigrinya: “ተሰነይ”
- Urdu: “تسنی”
- Veps: “Tesenei”
- Zulu: “Teseney”
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