Nekemte
Nekemte, also spelled as Neqemte, is a market city and City Administration in western Ethiopia. Located in the Oromia Region, it serves as the capital of the East Welega Zone.Photo: Hundeaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 92,700 residents
- Description: market town in western Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Lakamti, Lakemti, Lekemti, Nakamte, Nakamti, Nekemte, Nekemti, Nekemtie”, “Lakemti”, “Lechempte”, “Lechempti”, “Lechenti”, “Lehempti”, “Lekempti”, “Lekemt”, “Lekemte”, “Lekemti”, “Nak’amet”, “Nakamti”, “Nakempti”, “Naqamet”, “Naqamte”, “Naqamtee”, “Naqamti”, “Nek’emtē”, “Nekempt”, “Nekempte”, “Nekempti”, and “Nekemt”
Nekemte
- Categories: district of Ethiopia and locality
- Location: Oromiya, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.0905° or 9° 5′ 26″ northLongitude
36.5482° or 36° 32′ 53″ eastPopulation
92,700Elevation
2,107 metres (6,913 feet)IATA airport code
NEKOpen location code
6GXR3GRX+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 298296163OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Nekemte” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ነቀምት”
- Arabic: “نقمتي”
- Bavarian: “Nekemte”
- Bengali: “নেকেমতে”
- Chinese: “Nekemte”
- Chinese: “蕾珂美”
- Croatian: “Nekemte”
- Danish: “Nekemte”
- Dutch: “Nekemte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نقمتى”
- Finnish: “Nekemte”
- French: “Nekemte”
- German: “Nekemte”
- Greek: “Νεκέμτε”
- Gujarati: “નેકેમ્ટે”
- Hindi: “नेकम्टी”
- Hungarian: “Nekemte”
- Indonesian: “Nekemte”
- Italian: “Lechemti”
- Japanese: “ネケムテ”
- Kannada: “ನೆಕೆಮೆ”
- Korean: “네켐테”
- Latvian: “Nekemte”
- Lithuanian: “Nekemtė”
- Malay: “Nekemte”
- Marathi: “नेकेमटे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nekemte”
- Oromo: “Naqamte”
- Persian: “نکمته”
- Polish: “Nekemtie”
- Portuguese: “Nekemte”
- Romanian: “Nekemte”
- Russian: “Нэкэмте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nekemte”
- Sinhala: “නෙකෙම්ටේ”
- Spanish: “Nekemte”
- Swahili: “Nek’emte”
- Swedish: “Nekemte”
- Tamil: “நெகேம்டே”
- Telugu: “నెకెంటే”
- Thai: “เนเก็มที”
- Turkish: “Nekemte”
- Ukrainian: “Некемте”
- Urdu: “نیکیمتی”
- Vietnamese: “Nekemte”
- Yue Chinese: “Nekemte”
- Zulu: “Nekemte”
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