Emba Soira
Emba Soira is the highest mountain in Eritrea. Rising 3,018 metres above sea level, it is part of the Eritrean Highlands, one side of the Great Rift Valley which cuts through Eritrea and joins the Red Sea.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,013 metres
- Description: mountain in Eritrea
- Also known as: “Suairà”, “صوراء”, “صُورَاء”, and “安姆巴-索依拉峰”
Emba Soira
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Senafe subregion, Debub Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.75698° or 14° 45′ 25″ north
Longitude
39.5234° or 39° 31′ 24″ east
Elevation
3,013 metres (9,885 feet)
Open location code
7G6XQG4F+Q9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Emba Soira” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إمبا سويرا”
- Arabic: “جبل صوراء”
- Arabic: “سويرا”
- Basque: “Soira”
- Catalan: “Mont Soira”
- Catalan: “Soira”
- Cebuano: “Soyra”
- Chinese: “索伊拉山”
- Croatian: “Emba Soira”
- Czech: “Soira”
- Dutch: “Soira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل امبا سويرا”
- Finnish: “Emba Soira”
- French: “mont Soira”
- French: “Mont Soira”
- Fulah: “Emba Soira”
- Galician: “Soira”
- Georgian: “სოირა”
- Georgian: “სოირას მთა”
- German: “Soira”
- Hebrew: “אמבה סאווארה”
- Indonesian: “Amba Soira”
- Italian: “Soira”
- Japanese: “ソイラ山”
- Ladin: “Emba Soira”
- Lithuanian: “Soira”
- Macedonian: “Соира”
- Moroccan Arabic: “إيمبا سويرا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soira”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Soira”
- Persian: “امبا سویرا”
- Polish: “Soira”
- Portuguese: “Soira”
- Russian: “Амба-Моссино”
- Russian: “Соира”
- Spanish: “Soira”
- Swedish: “Soyra”
- Venetian: “Soira”
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